The war against Taiwan is well underway. But it isn't, yet, a kinetic war. Just as Russia once hoped to conquer Ukraine without firing a shot. Beijing also wants to convincing Taiwanese that their democracy is flawed, their allies will desert them... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/taiwan-china-disinformation-propaganda-russian-influence/67...

The Taiwanese call this "cognitive warfare": the point is to convince them surrender before the battle. But grassroots groups, from @doublethinklab to forward.org.tw/, Taiwanese activists identify Chinese information operations, and galvanize the public to be prepared

.@audreyt, Taiwan's innovative digital minister, describes this as a kind of asymmetric warfare: To fight China's heavy-handed, centralized information/ economic operations, she thinks Taiwan need a decentralized, transparent, open-source response.

Everyone in Taiwan understands the significance of the war in Ukraine. Foreign Minister Joseph Wu told me it
people think, “Wow, an authoritarian is initiating a war against a peace-loving country; could there be another one? And when they look around, they see Taiwan.”

The two countries aren't linked by history or culture, but they are now linked by analogy. @audreyt was wearing a Ukrainian trident t-shirt on the day I met her: