The Essential Role of Culture Differences in Cognitive Warfare with Dr. Li-Meng Yan on American Out Loud with Edward Haugland

 The Essential Role of Culture Differences in Cognitive Warfare - America Out Loud

Dr. Li-Meng Yan w/ The Voice of Dr. Yan – Communist Chinese culture is based on dictatorship, anti-humanity with strict restrictions of freedom, and impedes the progress of civilization. The fundamental differences between the two cultures bring huge differences in people’s thinking and behaviors and play an essential role in CCP’s cognitive war…

“Who knows well both the militaries of his own and the adversary, will be invincible.”

It is one of the most influential strategies in Chinese culture, which was written in The Art of War. It’s not outdated after 2500 years. In fact, billions of dollars funneled by government every year, ensure sufficient studies and operations to understand CCP’s top adversary, the US, on the full range.

Compared to the open and transparent system in the US, Communist China is close and opaque. Moreover, English is a compulsory subject in the Chinese curriculum for over three decades, while the Chinese-speaking population in the US is very small, and deeply infiltrated by CCP. Therefore, the disequilibrium provides fertile ground for CCP’s cognitive interventions against Americans.

As Edward Haugland summarized in “The only way to win World War III is to prevent it” in 2019, “The Intelligence Community (IC) and DoD (of the US), created in 1947, continue to function in a primarily reactive posture, using the industrial age processes of the era in which they were created.” The industrial age mode requires protocols and evidence fitting the stereotyped standards. However, China has developed more sophisticated and flexible strategies in the information age, as a combination of tactics in informative, psychological, and legal warfare.

Furthermore, there was never a period of the industrial age in Chinese history. Basically, autocratic regimes changed in the past over 2000 years in China, without any establishment of a real industrial civilization. More importantly, according to Xi Jinping’s thoughts, it’s CCP’s principle to take proactive steps, and struggle with courage against the US.

Hence, the traditional and standardized workflows hold back the US IC in handling the information related to China, which becomes a significant weakness in national security.

The origin of COVID-19 is always a mirror to reflect CCP’s cognitive tactics. The best plan for CCP is to create the zoonotic origin in the context of illegal wild animal consumption in Wuhan. Given the lack of knowledge of China, it would be easy for Americans to accept the illegal wild animal trading story, and difficult to question the authenticity of the information and data, as well as the integrity of the CCP government.

That’s why even IC members spent a lot of time following so-called evidence of bat soup, pangolin smuggling, and raccoon dog trading, but hesitate to touch the weaponized nature of the virus.

I appreciate my guest today, Edward Haugland’s definition: “Culture = Policy + People + Process.” Briefly, American culture is based on the Constitution, concerning the endowment of human rights and freedom, to improve the whole society over time.

In contrast, Communist Chinese culture is based on dictatorship, anti-humanity with strict restrictions of freedom, and impedes the progress of civilization. The fundamental differences between the two cultures bring huge differences in people’s thinking and behaviors and play an essential role in CCP’s cognitive war.

Edward Haugland is a retired federal Senior Executive and US Air Force veteran. His over four decades of service include serving as a senior leader in the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, Energy, and State. He’s served as the senior advisor to several IC agency heads, the Assistant Inspector General for Inspections for the Intelligence Community, the Chairman of CIA’s strategic planning, a Deputy team lead for the INF On-site nuclear arms inspections in the former Soviet Union, and as award-winning CIA intelligence analyst. He is currently an independent consultant focusing on cognitive warfare. He is also a regular host on The National Security Hour on the American Out Loud Talk Radio Network.


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