China’s military is developing advanced psychological warfare and brain-influencing weapons as part of a new warfighting strategy, according to a think tank report on People’s Liberation Army cognitive warfare.
The new arms include biological weapons designed to induce sleep or sleep-related disturbances in enemy troops. The goal is to impair cognition and alertness.
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will seek cognitive manipulation and control of enemies.
Other weapons it is working on include “genetic drugs” — pharmaceuticals designed to modify the genetic and physiological makeup of people and seek to impact cognitive, emotional, and behavioral traits.
What is a thinktank anyway? They're websites that call themselves thinktanks that "publish" papers they make the fuck up every now and then.
They're totally bullshit organisations invented for the purposes of creating deniability for the state that something came from a third party and not from themselves. Despite the fact that states are funding the thinktanks they're "independent".
It's also a way to introduce ideas to the public with an air of credibility. News corpos can pick up the story and provide sources, without having to say
(a) Countering Chinese influence fund.
—There is authorized to be appropriated $300,000,000 for each of fiscal
years 2021 through 2025 for the Countering Chinese Influence Fund to
counter the malign influence of the Chinese Communist Party globally.
Amounts appropriated pursuant to this authorization are authorized to
remain available until expended and shall supplement, not supplant,
amounts otherwise authorized to be appropriated to counter such
influence.