The recent visit by FBI Director Kash Patel to Australia and New Zealand is aimed at melding counter-intelligence and influence efforts against Beijing, according to one defence expert.
“One enduring axiom of Chinese strategic thinking is that a politically divided nation is a weaker one,” said Carl Schuster, an instructor in the Department of History at Hawaii Pacific University, in an interview with The Epoch Times.
“Mao [Zedong, former leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)] noted many years ago that political opinion drove democratic nations’ political will. So, modern China’s ‘Three Warfares’ doctrine (public opinion, media and lawfare) is intended to create those divisions….
FBI’s Visit Down Under to Ramp up Counter-Influence Efforts Against Beijing: Analysts
