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===PLA Total Information Warfare===

===PLA Total Information Warfare===

:{{See also|PLA Total Information Warfare}}

:{{See also|PLA Total Information Warfare}}

Chinese military writings are replete with references to making HEMP attacks against the United States as a means of prevailing in war. The foremost People's Liberation Army textbook on information warfare, Shen Weiguang's, ''World War, the Third World War—Total Information Warfare'', explicitly calls upon China to be prepared to exploit HEMP offensively—and to defend against it:<ref>Ibid and textbook: Shen Weiguang, ''World War, the Third World War--Total Information Warfare'' (Beijing: XinhuaPublishing House, June 1, 2001) translated in Foreign Broadcast Information System (FBIS) CPP20000517000168. See also Wang Xiaodong, "Special Means of Warfare in the Information Age," Jianchuan Zhishi (June 30, 1999)translated in FBIS FTS19990727000426. Zhang Shougi and Sun Xuegi, "Be Vigilant Against 'Pearl Harbor' Incident in the Information Age," Jiefangjun Bao (May 14, 1996) translated in FBIS FTS19960514000049.</ref>

According to Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, executive director of the U.S. EMP Task Force on National and Homeland Security,  

{{quotebox|“With their massive destructiveness, long-range nuclear weapons have combined with highly sophisticated information technology and information warfare under nuclear deterrence....Information war and traditional war have one thing in common, namely that the country which possesses the critical weapons such as atomic bombs will have ‘first strike’ and ‘second-strike retaliation’ capabilities....As soon as its computer networks come under attack and are destroyed, the country will slip into a state of paralysis and the lives of its people will ground to a halt. Therefore, China should focus on measures to counter computer viruses, nuclear electromagnetic pulse...and quickly achieve breakthroughs in those technologies in order to equip China without delay with equivalent deterrence that will enable it to stand up to the military powers in the information age and neutralize and check the deterrence of Western powers, including the United States.”}}

{{quotebox|"China's military doctrine closely associates [[cyber-attack]]s with nuclear HEMP attack, as part of a combined operation in what they call Total Information Warfare. Cyber bugs and [[hacking]] are the tip of the spear, the functional equivalent of scouts and sappers who do [[reconnaissance]] and secretly prepare the beaches for the arrival of D-Day, or like the motorcycle troops that preceded the heavy armored divisions in Germany's Blitzkrieg.  Therefore, China's cyber-attacks (for example, most notoriously in June 2015 on computers in virtually every federal agency, stealing sensitive information on millions of federal employees, reportedly on every employee of the Federal government) should be regarded as possible practice or preparation for Total Information Warfare—including nuclear HEMP attack.

China's military doctrine closely associates cyber-attacks with nuclear HEMP attack, as part of a combined operation in what they call Total Information Warfare. Cyber bugs and hacking are the tip of the spear, the functional equivalent of scouts and sappers who do reconnaissance and secretly prepare the beaches for the arrival of D-Day, or like the motorcycle troops that preceded the heavy armored divisions in Germany's Blitzkrieg.  Therefore, China's cyber-attacks (for example, most notoriously in June 2015 on computers in virtually every federal agency, stealing sensitive information on millions of federal employees, reportedly on every employee of the Federal government) should be regarded as possible practice or preparation for Total Information Warfare—including nuclear HEMP attack.

===Bioweapons===

===Bioweapons===