At present, the global situation is changing in an unprecedented way. International struggle is going on fiercely in various fields, including the field of media and communication. Cognitive warfare has become one of major battlefields of international struggle. Cognitive warfare is a form of warfare that targets human perceptions, which is significantly different from previous psychological warfare and information warfare. This kind of war is being carried out in three modes: the ideological engine, the transformation of the accepted discourse, and the cognitive offensive. These activities, conducted in synchronization with other Instruments of Power, can affect attitudes and behavior by influencing, protecting, or disrupting individual and group cognition to gain advantage over an adversary. Cognitive Warfare integrates cyber, information, psychological, and social engineering capabilities. With the accelerated development of technologies such as the Internet, big data, and artificial intelligence, cognitive warfare has gradually developed into a combat style supported by reliable data, computing power, and algorithms.

The cognitive war against China and Pakistan has been going on for many years, In December 2020, the EU DisinfoLab, an independent European think tank, released an investigation report entitled “ Indian Chronicles “, which revealed........

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