{"id":8667,"date":"2021-10-11T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=8667"},"modified":"2023-08-06T13:37:43","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T03:37:43","slug":"countering-chinas-grey-zone-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/countering-chinas-grey-zone-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Countering China\u2019s grey zone strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China\u2019s grey zone activities&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/airpower.airforce.gov.au\/publications\/chinas-enduring-grey-zone-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">grind remorseless on<\/a>&nbsp;but in so doing are creating an opposing pushback. As is customary, the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/claremontreviewofbooks.com\/digital\/china-and-strategic-paradox\/\" target=\"_blank\">paradoxical nature<\/a>&nbsp;of war applies in that those impacted by a damaging strategy will over time devise optimised counter-moves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In general,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/publications.armywarcollege.edu\/pubs\/2372.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">grey-zone activities<\/a>&nbsp;involve purposefully pursuing political objectives through carefully designed operations; moving cautiously towards the objectives rather than seeking decisive results quickly; acting to remain below key escalatory thresholds so as to avoid war; and using all instruments of national power, particularly non-military and non-kinetic tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These characteristics mean grey zone is not hybrid war. This is, as the name suggests, a type of warfare, that&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/cco.ndu.edu\/news\/article\/1680696\/examining-complex-forms-of-conflict-gray-zone-and-hybrid-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\">deliberately uses armed violence<\/a>&nbsp;to try to conclusively win a campaign, as Russia\u2019s involvements in the Ukraine, Syria and Libya highlight.&nbsp;&nbsp;Some argue&nbsp;that modern Russian hybrid war approach uses all means up to conventional military operations to support an information campaign aiming to gain&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.understandingwar.org\/sites\/default\/files\/Russian%20Hybrid%20Warfare%20ISW%20Report%202020.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">\u201ccontrol over the fundamental worldview and orientation of a state\u201d,<\/a>&nbsp;shift its geostrategic alignment, and shape its governance.&nbsp; China\u2019s grey zone actions aim for strategic advantage as is explained below, but today\u2019s Russian hybrid war model much more ambitiously tries for regime change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please click here to read the full &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/smallwarsjournal.com\/jrnl\/art\/countering-chinas-gray-zone-strategy\">Countering China\u2019s grey zone strategy<\/a>&#8221; article originally published in Small Wars Journal, written by<a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\"> Griffith Asia Institute<\/a> Visiting Fellow, Dr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.griffith.edu.au\/asia-institute\/our-researchers\/visiting-fellow-dr-peter-layton\">Peter Layton<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETER LAYTON\u00a0| China\u2019s grey zone activities&nbsp;grind remorseless on&nbsp;but in so doing are creating an opposing pushback. As is customary, the&nbsp;paradoxical nature&nbsp;of war applies in that those impacted by a damaging strategy will over time devise optimised counter-moves. In general,&nbsp;grey-zone activities&nbsp;involve purposefully pursuing political objectives through carefully designed operations; moving cautiously towards the objectives rather than<a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/countering-chinas-grey-zone-strategy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Countering China\u2019s grey zone strategy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1170,245],"tags":[284,728,685,1082],"class_list":["post-8667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-china-and-north-east-asia","tag-china","tag-grey-zone-tactics","tag-grey-zone-operations","tag-peter-layton"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"Jill Moriarty","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Countering China\u2019s grey zone strategy | Griffith Asia Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PETER LAYTON\u00a0| China\u2019s grey zone activities&nbsp;grind remorseless on&nbsp;but in so doing are creating an opposing pushback. 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