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Abstract: This article analyzes the PRC’s lawfare against the United States and its allies in the maritime, aviation, and information technology domains. In the maritime and aviation domains, the PRC is using lawfare to take control of the South China Sea without firing a shot. In the information technology domain, the PRC is stealing the West’s best weapons systems using keystrokes rather than the use of force. It is also positioning itself to shut down the West’s critical electrical and other infrastructure without bombing a single power plant. In addition, it is developing the means to revolutionize the brink and conduct of any future kinetic conflict through the hyper-personalization of war, in which it would deploy financial, health, and other personalized data about Western troops to blackmail, distract, and demoralize individual Western warfighters and their families.
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