Cognitive war, cognitive war never changes

Welcome to Memetic Warfare.

We’ll take a look this week at Taiwan’s National Security Bureau and their latest report, titled the very catchy “Analysis of China’s Cognitive Warfare Tactics Against Taiwan in 2025”, available here, which is a follow up to their latest public report on Chinese cyber activity targeting Taiwan.

The report is highly similar to the previous one, providing a very basic, high level overview of Chinese activity. We’ll select a few interesting sections.

The first is the mentioning of specific companies that weren’t in the public eye before. Golaxy had its moment, but Meiya Pico? Never heard of it. Sames goes for Warming Hi-Tech.

We also get some mentions of some old classics like Haixun and Haimai, and a new one - Huya:

We also get WuBianJie Group as a company active via Facebook pages:

The requisite Spamouflage mention appears, alongside other companies such as Zhongkedianji, Xingguang and Onesight:

Another unexpected paragraph referred to AI, which is to be expected, but what was interesting was their mention of IT companies that develop “intelligence voice systems” that, as per the report, aspire to develop capabilities with unique Taiwanese dialects and accents:

ATO of course gets a mention, and I’d be curious to see more about the activity during April 2025:

Here we get more unsupported or odd numbers, such as 2.314 million “pieces of disinformation”:

Similarly to the last report, we also get a stratcom section where they refer to other international partners and reports:

Seems that Taiwan has a specific MO going here, which I’m in favor of, but these reports need to get better. They’re lacking in content, datapoints, evidence and real, usable information and usecases, let alone production values.

That’s it for this week, thanks for reading.