China’s ‘Three Warfares’ and India

Abhijit Singh

Archive data: Person was Research Fellow at IDSA from July 2013 to February 2016 Joined IDSA July 31, 2013 Expertise Maritime Issues, Littoral Security Education B.Sc Current Project The Indo-Pacific… Continue reading China’s ‘Three Warfares’ and India read more

For the past decade, China is known to have actively used ‘three warfares’ (3Ws) strategy—media, psychological and legal warfare—to weaken its adversaries in regions constituting what it perceives to be its ‘core interests’. While a wide range of tools have been deployed, the attacks have remained mostly confined to Taiwan and South-East Asian states involved in the territorial disputes in the South China Sea. But with Beijing’s influence in South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) growing, there is evidence emerging of the 3Ws strategy being put to use against India. The evolving Chinese 3Ws strategy goes beyond mere propaganda wars and misinformation campaigns. Expanding conventional war dynamics into the political domain, the 3Ws appear aimed at undermining India’s organizational foundations and target military morale. More disquietingly, the strategy appears designed to subdue India without even needing to fight.

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