{"id":9180,"date":"2022-06-07T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/?p=9180"},"modified":"2023-08-06T14:05:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T04:05:54","slug":"chinas-grey-zone-activities-concepts-and-possible-responses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/chinas-grey-zone-activities-concepts-and-possible-responses\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s grey-zone activities: Concepts and possible responses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/testblogs.griffith.edu.au\/asiainsights\/tag\/peter-layton\/\">PETER LAYTON<\/a>\u00a0|  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent years a new term has thrust itself into the military lexicon.&nbsp; \u2018Grey-zone\u2019 has become verbal shorthand for the type of prickly interactions many Indo-Pacific states have with China. These new kind of fractious interstate relations are equally baffling and disconcerting but fortunately falls short of war. &nbsp;However, the nature of grey-zone activities means defence forces are deeply involved in addressing the challenges they pose.&nbsp; Grey-zones may not feature warfighting but they do involve war-fighters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article looks at the grey-zone from a defence viewpoint and mainly at the strategic level.&nbsp;The highest form of strategy is grand strategy, which involves building and applying power.&nbsp; Building and applying power are clearly interdependent, however, this article focuses on applying power. It does not discuss building the power necessary, as that is more of a mobilisation problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article initially discusses what grey-zone is, and equally crucially is not, to derive some implications useful when considering responses.&nbsp; The second part discusses some of the conceptual background to China\u2019s imaginative and innovative grey-zone actions. These actions happen within a particular intellectual framework and a specific context; they are not some isolated, independent activity.&nbsp; The third section notes some planning issues and suggests some response options while the fourth looks to the future to appreciate how China\u2019s grey-zone activities might evolve, potentially positively but possibly negatively. &nbsp;The final section delves into two conceivable grey-zone responses the RNZAF could usefully become involved in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Defining Grey-Zone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Michael Mazarr comprehensively examined the idea of grey-zone in a seminal 2015 work.&nbsp; He considered grey-zone conflicts involved the purposeful pursuit of political objectives through carefully designed operations; a measured movement towards the objectives rather than seeking decisive results within a specified time period; acting to remain below key escalatory thresholds so as to avoid war; and the use of all the instruments of national power, particularly non-military and non-kinetic tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Readily apparent is that grey-zone activities do not include making war, instead actively seeking its avoidance.&nbsp; In so excluding war but also not being peace, the grey-zone idea blurs the distinction between the two, creating an undefined middle ground. If peace is the \u2018the absence of violence\u2019, the grey-zone idea generates a conceptual puzzle in not being either war or peace.&nbsp; This definitional pedantry highlights that a core aspect of grey-zone is that aggressors rely on the existing peace being sufficiently resilient for the grey-zone activities to succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given these broad grey-zone characteristics, several implications become apparent.&nbsp; Grey-zone actions aim to gradually accumulate successes.&nbsp; That is, they are a cumulative strategy not a sequential strategy in the classification schema that J.C. Wylie noted in the mid-1960s. &nbsp;A cumulative strategy is what Wylie thought air warfare strategies were: aircraft went out every day, fought small tactical actions and gradually won.&nbsp;There was no single grand decisive battle like Waterloo or Gettysburg or Kursk, just a day by day accumulation of successes until a tipping point was reached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This also means that grey-zone actions don\u2019t just happen; they are implemented in a carefully-designed campaign plan&nbsp;controlled by strategic-level commanders. The highest levels of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and PLA command structures are involved.&nbsp; Grey-zone actions are not those of tactical commanders free lancing. This highlights that while Chinese grey-zone operations involve coordinating many non-military entities, they ultimately rely on hard military power provided by the PLA and wielded by the Party.&nbsp; Without the PLA, China\u2019s grey-zone activities would be very different and much less effective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Importantly, the aim in these grey-zone operations is to avoid and indeed prevent military escalation. 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