Communist China's Insidious Doctrine of Unrestricted Warfare

In 1999, two scheming colonels in the People’s Liberation Army, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui, penned Unrestricted Warfare, a venomous manifesto masquerading as military theory. This book lays bare the Communist Chinese Party’s (CCP) ruthless ambition: to dismantle the United States not through conventional battles, but via a shadowy, all-encompassing assault on every pillar of American society.This doctrine fuels the CCP’s ongoing hybrid war, blending economic sabotage, cyber intrusions, cultural poison, and more to erode U.S. supremacy. The CCP, a tyrannical regime built on oppression, coercion, and deceit, views America as its prime obstacle to global domination. Their strategy exploits Western openness while shielding their own ruthless, iron-fisted control, aided by naive and complicit supporters in international business, academia, and politics who prioritize profit over principle.Economically, the CCP wields unrestricted warfare like a blunt instrument to cripple America’s prosperity. Through predatory trade practices, intellectual property theft, and forced technology transfers, Beijing siphons trillions from U.S. innovation. Huawei’s infiltration of global telecoms isn’t about fair competition—it’s espionage disguised as business, enabling data theft and network sabotage.The Trump administration has successfully pushed back with tariffs, export controls, and investment scrutiny, curbing some CCP aggression and revitalizing domestic manufacturing, but it needs to go further by fully decoupling supply chains and imposing harsher penalties on enablers. The so-called “trade war” exposed this: China’s economic coercion, including tariffs and supply chain manipulations, aims to bankrupt American industries while flooding markets with subsidized goods.Domestically, CCP-linked entities buy up U.S. farmland and critical infrastructure, not for benign investment, but to control food supplies and exert leverage during crises. Their Belt and Road Initiative ensnares nations in debt traps, but against America, it’s subtler—using economic aid warfare to sway allies and isolate the U.S. These tactics, cheered by Wall Street enablers who lobby for “engagement,” hollow out American manufacturing, costing millions of jobs and fostering dependency on a hostile power.Militarily, unrestricted warfare sidesteps direct confrontation, where the U.S. holds the edge, in favor of asymmetric erosion. The PLA’s rapid modernization—building aircraft carriers, hypersonic missiles, and space weapons—isn’t just defensive; it’s preparation for indirect strikes, like cyber warfare attacks, that could paralyze U.S. grids and command systems. Their new fighters, like the J-20, bear a striking resemblance to U.S. designs such as the F-22, a clear result of espionage and theft.China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea violate international norms, claiming territory and daring the world to respond. Espionage rings steal military tech, from fighter jets to stealth designs, accelerating Beijing’s arsenal while undermining U.S. superiority. Meanwhile, disinformation campaigns via state media and social platforms sow doubt in American resolve, portraying the U.S. military as imperialistic. The CCP’s international supporters, including academics who downplay these threats as “McCarthyism,” enable this buildup, ignoring how it endangers global stability.Societally, the CCP’s assault is a cultural blitzkrieg, polluting minds and institutions to fracture unity. Through Confucius Institutes on U.S. university campuses, they peddle propaganda, censor dissent, and recruit spies under the guise of education. Apps and software routinely harvest data while algorithmically promoting divisive content that amplifies polarization. It’s classic media warfare.All foreign exchange students who return to China after attending U.S. universities are debriefed by the CCP upon their return to glean dual-use knowledge, turning academic exchanges into intelligence ops. And Hollywood self-censors to appease Beijing, erasing Taiwan from maps and glorifying CCP narratives, while their cultural warfare exports authoritarian values, eroding basic American principles of freedom.Domestic sympathizers, from progressive elites to corporate executives, excuse this as “multiculturalism,” but it’s subversion: weakening societal cohesion through fabricated narratives and psychological operations that breed mistrust in democracy itself.Criminally, unrestricted warfare manifests in shadowy operations that blur state and crime. China’s role in the fentanyl crisis is drug warfare incarnate—state-linked labs produce precursors shipped via cartels, killing tens of thousands of Americans annually as a form of asymmetric attack. The escalating illegal marijuana trade in Oklahoma, dominated by Chinese criminal networks, has exploded into a multi-billion-dollar black market, with thousands of illicit grows tied to triads and CCP-linked entities, threatening national security and local communities.Cybercriminal networks, often with PLA backing, launch ransomware and data breaches, stealing personal information to fuel blackmail and economic disruption. Smuggling warfare includes counterfeit goods that undermine U.S. brands and human trafficking rings that exploit the vulnerable as well as humanity itself.The FBI labels this the top counterintelligence threat, yet CCP apologists in the media dismiss it as xenophobia, allowing these criminal tentacles to spread unchecked.In the pharmaceutical industry, the CCP has engineered a perilous U.S. dependency, controlling nearly 90% of antibiotic active ingredients and key supply chains. This isn’t accidental; Beijing plans to exploit it in crises by obstructing supplies and spiking prices, with the potential to cause shortages that cripple healthcare and force concessions. Forced labor taints much of this production, yet greedy, opportunistic corporations—especially in the BigPharma sphere, a conglomerate of money-grubbing reprobates if there ever was one—overlook the CCP’s slave labor for cheap costs, handing the CCP a biological warfare lever without firing a shot.Agriculturally, the CCP targets America’s breadbasket with calculated aggression. By acquiring vast swaths of U.S. farmland—over 384,000 acres as of 2022—Chinese firms are gaining a foothold in food production, with the potential to disrupt food supplies in a conflict. The CCP’s preference is to purchase land close to US military bases, raising serious concerns about espionage and strategic vulnerabilities. Chinese nationals have been caught introducing foreign plants and materials, such as smuggling dangerous fungi that could devastate crops, into the agricultural process.Resource warfare extends to the hoarding of rare earth minerals, which are essential for fertilizers, thereby creating dependencies. These moves, facilitated by mis-targeted regulations and pro-China lobbyists, threaten food security, turning America’s agricultural heartland into a vulnerability.The U.S.—and the whole of the free world—must identify and confront these actions before it’s too late. Blind “engagement” has only emboldened the CCP, whose unrestricted warfare exploits openness to sow chaos. A whole-of-society response is essential: bolstering cybersecurity, restricting technology transfers, exposing propaganda, and decoupling economically wherever and whenever possible. The whole of the free world must actively and forcefully confront the CCP’s totalitarian quest. Ignoring this invites defeat without a shot being fired. Policymakers must reject the siren song of CCP sympathizers who profit from betrayal, prioritizing national security over short-term and opportunistic gains.A world dominated by communist China would be a dystopian nightmare of surveillance, oppression, and forced servitude, where individual liberties are crushed under the boot of totalitarian control, and free nations kneel to Beijing’s whims.We cannot let this happen. It’s well past time to act.When we come back, our segment on America’s Third Watch, broadcast nationally from our flagship station WGUL, AM860 and FM93.7 in Tampa, Florida.In Closing…Before parting today, I’d like to remind you of our new project, the Underground USA Daily News Brief. It removes the fluff—no clickbait or mindless gossip, just a non-agendized summary of stories with sources from across the spectrum. People seem to like it. So, ditch the mainstream media’s opinionated lectures and give us a shot, and if you like it, share it and subscribe. If you really like it and find it worthy, please consider contributing to the effort.The CCP’s insidious “Unrestricted Warfare.” Remember, this isn’t abstract theory—it’s Beijing’s active blueprint to sabotage America across every front. From economic theft and military espionage to societal division, criminal fentanyl floods, pharmaceutical strangleholds, and agricultural infiltration, the tyrannical regime exploits our openness while viciously crushing dissent on its mainland. Aided by their naive and greedy supporters in the West, they’re eroding our foundations without firing a shot.The U.S. and the free world must wake up, decouple, and confront this totalitarian menace head-on. A world dominated by communist China would be a dystopian nightmare of surveillance, oppression, and forced servitude, where individual liberties are crushed under the boot of totalitarian control, and free nations kneel to Beijing’s whims. We cannot let this happen. Stay vigilant and stand up to tyranny.Until next time… Get full access to Underground USA at www.undergroundusa.com/subscribe