Building a Multilateral Cognitive Warfare Defense Network: A Collaborative Framework for the United States, Japan, and Taiwan

Building a multilateral cognitive warfare defense network: A collaborative framework for the United States, Japan, and Taiwan

Beijing is pressuring Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the Philippines not only with ships and aircraft but also in the cognitive domain—which no multilateral mechanism defends. This report explores what it would take to build a coordinated multilateral defense network to combat this threat across the first island chain.

Experts Warn of China’s Information Warfare, Urge Taiwan to Strengthen Psychological Defense

Taiwan’s Presidential Office held the 2026 Resilient Taiwan for Sustainable Democracy International Forum in Taipei on Sept. 19, bringing together foreign scholars and security experts to discuss whole-of-society resilience, information warfare and psychological defense. According to the Presidential Office, the forum examined emerging security threats through sessions covering civil-military cooperation, psychological defense and international …