Wang Xiangsui is a senior Colonel

Colonel

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 in the People’s Liberation Army. He is co-author

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 of Unrestricted Warfare

Unrestricted Warfare

Unrestricted Warfare is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People's Liberation Army, Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui . Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent through a variety of means...

. Unrestricted warfare dictates that no country

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 is capable of defeating a superpower

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 such as the United States

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 on its own terms, but outlines that such superpowers could be weakened through unconventional means, including manipulation of banking system

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s, control of the media

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, and control of natural resource

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