Competing without Fighting

Seth G. Jones is senior vice president, Harold Brown Chair, and director of the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Emily Harding is deputy director and senior fellow with the International Security Program at CSIS. Catrina Doxsee is an associate director and associate fellow for the Transnational Threats Project at CSIS. Jake Harrington was the intelligence fellow in the International Security Program at CSIS. Riley McCabe is a program coordinator and research assistant for the Transnational Threats Project at CSIS.

Executive Summary

1. Introduction

2. The Strategic Logic of Chinese Political Warfare

3. Intelligence Operations

4. Cyber Operations

5. Information and Disinformation Operations

6. The United Front

7. Irregular Military Actions

8. Economic Coercion

9. Countering China

About the Authors

Appendix

Endnotes