The Emergence of Hybrid Warfare Elements in the Conflict Between China and Taiwan

Abstract

Today's battlefields are very different from the battlefields in the 19th century. New threats and new global and regional security challenges have emerged. In the complex operating environment and the digital world, new warfare forms have emerged, such as asymmetric warfare. The use of conventional, common operations has changed, and new political, cyber and media elements have been added, which are combined to form a new hybrid warfare form. The settlement of the conflict in the Crimea in 2014 and the result of this were an exemplary example. The conflict between China and Taiwan since 1949 is a very long and tense problem that has not been solved by any means until now. China's unification efforts over the last decades have entered a new phase and learn from the Russian example, using hybrid warfare tools to enforce their unification aspirations. The purpose of this paper is to present the steps taken and to outline the possible additional Chinese steps and how to remedy them.