Taiwan needs to bolster its legal framework, inter-ministerial cooperation and societal resistance to face China’s cognitive warfare, Tunghai University Cross-Strait Research Center deputy executive director Hung Pu-chao (洪浦釗) said. “We cannot use laws from the analog era to fight cognitive warfare in the digital age,” Hung said. China does not need to convince everyone, heightening political polarization alone achieves its cognitive warfare goals, he said. Cognitive security can no longer be the responsibility of just national security agencies, but needs to involve cooperation between multiple ministries, he said. When the public sees through China’s cognitive warfare, it acts as a “social vaccine,” weakening disinformation and embedding cognitive security into democratic defense, he said.

Source: Taipei Times January 11, 2026 16:05 UTC