Hybrid Warfare and Operations in the Context of the National Security System: A Chinese Perspective

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The relevance of the topic of the study lies in the fact that the problems of hybrid warfare, hybrid operations, hybrid influence have become especially important in the context of the complicated geopolitical situation in the world after February 2022. In the author’s opinion, Russia’s forced conduct of the Special military operation is one of the tools of the US hybrid influence on China. In the study several methods were applied: the content analysis of conceptualdoctrinal and normative documents, analyzed the views of Chinese scientists, political and military figures on hybrid warfare and operations, as well as publications of authoritative media on this issue. As a result, it is concluded that in the Chinese understanding hybrid wars and operations are becoming the main form of confrontation between states and blocs of states. At the same time, the hybrid impact is exerted on the national security assurance system, which should effectively counter “traditional and non-traditional” threats and challenges, that are hybrid. Chinese experts note that there is a risk of underestimating the responsibility for a possible global conflict, which may be caused by inadequate projection of hybrid threats onto a country or group of countries. The author also concludes that we may be witnessing one of the last stages of the unfolding U.S. hybrid war against China.

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Leonid G. Abdrakhimov

RUDN University

Author for correspondence.
Email: van.leonid@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7703-5218
SPIN-code: 5183-2520

postgraduate of the Comparative Political Science Department

Moscow, Russian Federation

Alina O. Liksok

Alexander Nevsky Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

Email: arinalabibi@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0009-0008-0740-2543

trainee

Moscow, Russian Federation

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