The battle between China and the United States is no longer as simple as economic numbers or military equipment on the table.

The national high-end think tank under Xinhua News Agency revealed a corner of this invisible war not long ago.

The report digs deep into the root causes behind it, and exposes the harm caused to the world by such actions one by one.

Holy Anxiety and Civilized Patience

Harvard scholar Joseph Nye has long pointed out: The United States must firmly control the global situation and let other countries follow its script.

This mentality determines that it has a deep-rooted vigilance towards any force that may challenge its position.

From the post-World War II "Marshall Plan", economic aid has been firmly tied to the output of values.

And to the psychological shadow left by the Korean War, it always had a complex fear and hostility towards China's rise.

For China, its strategic positioning is completely different.

China's self-cognition is not only a "country" in the modern sense, but also a "civilization" that has been uninterrupted for thousands of years.

The profound civilization background determines our pursuit is not to overthrow or replace whom, but to restore our due position in the long river of history.

It is fundamentally contradictory to the jungle law of "who is the boss" in the United States.

The cultural battlefield where gunpowder cannot be seen

When some American strategists realized that hard guys like missiles and aircraft carriers alone would be difficult to suppress China for a long time, they turned their attention to another battlefield: the cognitive field.

They concluded that if a country's cultural identity and national cohesion can be disintegrated from within, it will be much lower than the confrontation of real swords and guns, and the effect will be better.

They also have successful experience in this gameplay.

Thinking back then, the fundamental reason for the disintegration of the Soviet Union was attributed to a successful ideological and public opinion war.

The so-called "thaw" during Khrushchev's period accidentally opened a window.

The United States took advantage of the trend to launch the so-called "truth movement", using bait like full scholarships to attract young people from the Soviet Union to study abroad.

Over time, a trend of thought began to appear within the Soviet Union to deny its own history and culture, and the spiritual pillar of the entire country was taken away little by little.

Now, this script has been moved to China intact.

For example, in terms of aesthetics, we deliberately distort the standards and praise some ugly things as "high-end" and "personality". In terms of consumption concepts, desperately promoting imported goods is better than domestic ones, creating a chain of contempt.

The Internet public opinion field is a hardest hit area. If there is something positive in China, there will always be someone who will come out to discredit it.

Even in the field of education, they have been tampering with, while restricting Chinese students from learning cutting-edge technology, and encouraging everyone to learn more liberal arts.

At the same time, the Internet is full of posts that exaggerate the Western work welfare and lifestyle.

Behind a series of operations, it is nothing more than hindering China's industrial upgrading and always locking China at the bottom of the industrial chain, so that they can continue to plunder our labor results comfortably.

But what they didn't expect was that young people in China had changed.

They began to be proud of their country's army from the bottom of their hearts and proud of domestic cultural masterpieces like "Black Myth: Wukong".

Behind cultural confidence is the joint support of the country's hard and soft power.

Direct dialogue on the parade ground

When the abacus of cognitive penetration crackled, China used a grand military parade to conduct the most direct and public strategic response.

This is by no means a simple "showing muscles", but a precise call to certain American military adventures.

Its core logic is the wisdom passed down by our ancestors: "Stop war with war".

The reason for the shouting is based on the deduction conclusion of the US military: at the doorstep of China, they have almost no chance of winning.

So, the United States tried to use its advantages in strategic bombers and nuclear submarines to launch a "surgical" devastating blow to China's shipyards and naval ships from a long distance.

They have even begun to deploy, and once added "Ohio-class" strategic nuclear submarines to Guam, with the intention being self-evident.

And that military parade was like a tit-for-tat "strategic dialogue".

The United States wants to use air-based power to conduct long-range strikes. We demonstrated the "Thunder-11" nuclear missile. With the H-6K/N bomber, your rear will no longer be safe.

The United States wants to use sea-based nuclear submarines to conduct sneak attacks. Our Jilang 3 submarine-launched intercontinental missile has shown its performance, and its performance is enough to compete with your "Trident II D5" and even surpass it.

The United States wants to use land-based missiles to deter us. Our Dongfeng 5C intercontinental missile has global coverage and multi-warhead strike capabilities.

There is also the elusive Dongfeng 61 vehicle-mounted intercontinental missile, with an estimated speed of up to Mach 20, and its high maneuverability makes your defense system useless.

This "Trinity" nuclear strike system is equivalent to a public announcement: Any form of military adventure will pay an unbearable price.

Not only that, the military parade also unveiled cutting-edge conventional weapons like Rocket-boosting torpedoes, demonstrating China's major breakthrough in core technology fields such as sonar, with the goal of dismantling the pitiful sense of technological superiority in the opponent's heart.

The psychological effect of this "sword" was immediately effective.

The then-President Trump said afterwards that he had no intention of clashing with China. The attitudes of regional forces such as ASEAN have also undergone subtle changes.

Facts have proved that this carefully planned deterrent successfully managed the crisis and achieved the strategic goal of "beating the enemy without fighting".

Reference: Red Star News 2025-09-09 "Xinhua News Agency Releases a Big Big Think Tank Report: Exposing the U.S. Cognitive Warfare Means, Roots and International Hazards"