US Power Alliance Says It's Coordinating An "Information War" Against China

In an article published last week titled "US working with 'Five Eyes' nations, Japan on information warfare," a publication on military intelligence and communications technology called C4ISRNET reports that the US and its allies are collaborating "To share and sharpen information-warfare techniques in the Indo-Pacific" with the goal of "Countering" the "Increasingly aggressive China.”

"I want to say we have at least a dozen countries or so that are either establishing information warfare programs, or are interested in partnering further in the information warfare realm," she said Feb. 15 at the West 2023 conference in San Diego.

Japan, specifically, has expressed significant interest in information warfare, "In a really positive way," Aeschbach told C4ISRNET. Japan and Australia, among others, are considered critical U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific, a region national security officials are invested in as they seek to counter an increasingly aggressive China.

Libertarian Institute's Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman have a good write-up on this latest revelation in which they explain that information warfare is "a broad swath of military operations a country can use to disrupt another" which "Can include spreading disinformation or preventing the spread of information.”

As Anzalone and Freeman note, one significant recent instance of the US government's acknowledged use of information warfare was when US officials told NBC News that the US government has been deliberately circulating unsubstantiated information to western news media "As part of an information war against Russia.”

Substack.comUS Officials Admit They're Literally Just Lying To The Public About RussiaListen to a reading of this article: NBC News has a new report out citing multiple anonymous US officials, humorously titled "In a break with the past, U.S. is using intel to fight an info war with Russia, even when the intel isn't rock solid".

Propaganda is nothing new, including propaganda against China.

The difference now is that empire managers are getting increasingly comfortable with publicly acknowledging this fact, probably because the notion that the west needs to fight its own "Information war" against its enemies has been gaining increasingly widespread traction since 2016.

As I keep reiterating, the bizarre thing about this belief is that the propaganda from empire-targeted governments has virtually zero existence in the western world, while western propaganda dominates our information ecosystem.

So we can expect to see a multinational coordinated propaganda campaign against China, which could easily eclipse the anti-China propaganda campaign we've seen thus far, and could easily end up making the one against Russia look like child's play.

The only reason it doesn't is because westerners are already so propagandized to the gills that the notion that our rulers should lie to us for our own good has gained so much traction that the empire can now openly imprison journalists for trying to tell us the truth.

Westerners think of people in China as brainwashed victims of propaganda and censorship living in a power-serving homogenized information bubble, but that's exactly what's happening in our own society.