In March 2012, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, speaking to the National People's Congress, declared that the Chinese military's most important mission was "to win local wars under Information Age conditions."
Wen's use of "local wars" drew immediate reaction.
Given China's territorial claims in Asia, locals such as Taiwan, Vietnam, the Philippines and Japan heard a threat.
As for the phrase "under Information Age conditions," media took that to mean the internet, interconnected global communications and pervasive information resources -- information's soft power side, to include propaganda to cover a Chinese "gray zone" war.
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WNU Editor: The Chinese have adopted the concept that soldiers behind keyboards will be far more lethal than soldiers on the front lines. Here is a good study fom the RAND corporation on where China is going .... People's Liberation Army Operational Concepts (RAND).
