China is expanding its "three warfares" policy in dealing with Taiwan to its territorial disputes in the South China Sea, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily.
Richard Hu, deputy executive director of the Center for Security Studies at Taipei's National Chengchi University, told the paper that the People's Liberation Army first officially coined the political warfare concept of the "three warfares" back in 2003, being public opinion warfare, psychological warfare and legal warfare.
The three warfares strategy has long been adopted by Beijing for cross-strait affairs, but now the battlefield has shifted from the Taiwan Strait to the South China Sea, Hu said.
According to Hu, China has already begun adopting the strategy against the Philippines, which filed a 4,000-page arbitration case at The Hague under the United Nations Law of the Sea against Beijing's territorial claims to the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea.
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