活動
台外媒體人茶敘-01/15 Kerry K. Gershaneck「美國政府在對抗中國政治作戰中的失誤──給予川普新政府對台政策的啟示」
大家新年快樂！2025年第一場由「台灣新聞記者協會」與「台灣外國記者會合」辦的「台外媒體人茶敘」活動將在1月15號舉辦。這次我們邀請了《中國滲透：揭開中共不戰而屈人之兵的隱形攻勢》（Political Warfare: Strategies for Combating China’s Plan to”Win without Fighting”）一書的作者凱瑞．葛宣尼克（Kerry K. Gershaneck）蒞臨擔任講者。
凱瑞．葛宣尼克會以「美國政府在對抗中國政治作戰中的失誤 – 給予川普新政府對台政策的啟示」（The U.S. Government’s Failure to Confront China’s Political Warfare: Implications for Taiwan and Trump 47）作為主題跟大家分享他的見解與看法。講座將以英文進行。
凱瑞．葛宣尼克長年關注美中台三邊關係議題，並曾是美國國會的對抗中國政治作戰委員會的諮詢委員。他在2018至2020年於政治大學擔任過訪問學者，2025年他再度受邀在政治大學擔任訪問學者。
凱瑞．葛宣尼克：「中國共產黨的政治作戰是殘酷、無孔不入且資源豐富的。這樣的作戰方式對於台灣和美國都造成了生存上的威脅，美國在第一次的冷戰中，以自身的政治作戰技巧成功擊敗了蘇聯。但時至今日，美國國會的一項調查證實，美國政府目前不但沒有相對應的戰略準備，也選擇了無視中共政治作戰的入侵。」（The Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare is brutal, pervasive, and extraordinarily well resourced. It poses an existential threat to both Taiwan and the U.S. America’s once-skillful Political Warfare proved decisive in the victory over the Soviet Union in the First Cold War. However, today the U.S. government willfully disregards the CCP’s Political Warfare and has no strategy to counter and defeat it, as validated by a recent Congressional investigation. ）
凱瑞．葛宣尼克是該國會調查報告的撰寫者之一，對於中共對美台的政治作戰有相當深入的研究。對相關議題有興趣的會員，還請不要錯過這次的活動。
本次講座活動中，前段是專家對與會的台灣及外國媒體人進行專題演講及Q&A時間，演講以中文進行。後段則有自由交流時間，供講者與現場與會者得以相互自由交流。我們希望藉由這樣的活動，除了讓台灣跟外國記者相互認識之外，也可以透過不同議題、讓台灣各議題的專家跟台灣記者、外國媒體都有進一步的認識與交流。
主辦單位：台灣新聞記者協會＆台灣外國記者會
活動時間：01月15日(星期三)傍晚6點45分開始入場、7點15分活動開始
活動地點：Two Three Comedy Club 23喜劇俱樂部
地址：台灣台北市中山區林森北路286號B1
參加者：記協與工會會員入場費200/人，欲加入會員並參與活動者，報名後記協將會與您聯繫。
註：自由交流時間現場會提供簡單食物、小吃，酒水自行付費。
以下是凱瑞．葛宣尼克對於本次講座寫的英文介紹：
The U.S. Government’s Failure to Confront China’s Political Warfare:
Implications for Taiwan and Trump 47
Speaker: Professor Kerry K. Gershaneck
Visiting Scholar, National Chengchi University
The Chinese Communist Party’s Political Warfare is brutal, pervasive, and extraordinarily well resourced. It poses an existential threat to both Taiwan and the U.S. America’s once-skillful Political Warfare proved decisive in the victory over the Soviet Union in the First Cold War. However, today the U.S. government willfully disregards the CCP’s Political Warfare and has no strategy to counter and defeat it, as validated by a recent Congressional investigation.
The 300-page House Oversight and Accountability Committee investigation report states that the CCP “is a totalitarian force that enslaves its own people (and) seeks to destroy America.” Yet after an extensive investigation of 25 government entities including the National Security Council; departments of State, Defense, Justice, Commerce, and Education; and the Intelligence Community, Congress concluded that the U.S. government:
*failed to develop a strategy for dealing with China, despite a 2022 law mandating the strategy
*“neglected to even recognize that the CCP is . . .waging a cold war against the United States”
*“has failed to understand, acknowledge, and strategically combat CCP political warfare”
*“has no strategy or whole-of-government approach regarding CCP Political Warfare”
One startling indicator of many in the report of the current U.S. government’s willful disregard of the CCP’s Political Warfare threat involves a senior Department of State official who briefed the committee on State’s role in combatting the threat. In the First Cold War, State officials such as George Kennan initiated the Political Warfare strategy that ultimately won that prolonged conflict. Today’s State Department leadership? Not so competent or visionary. Per the report:
The State Department official who oversees the newly created Office of China Coordination
(China House), which sought to facilitate the Biden-Harris Administration’s approach to the
PRC, had to ask the Committee to define political warfare during a briefing about CCP
political warfare and the department’s response to it.
Not surprisingly, the investigation found that “CCP influence operations have interfered with the judgment, discretion, and fulfillment of duties by federal agencies themselves.” It also found that “the size, complexity, and compartmentalization of the federal government has amounted to excuses and blame shifting that finds no parallel in the CCP, which is, because of its totalitarian nature, unsparingly unified and efficient in carrying out its plans.” The report lauds one agency that has attempted to combat CCP Political Warfare and provides recommendations for each of the 25 federal agencies it investigated to prod them to start protecting America from the threat.
Key findings from this October 2024 Congressional report mirror findings in Prof. Kerry K. Gershaneck’s 2020 book Political Warfare: Strategies for Combatting China’s Plan to “Win Without Fighting.” Prof. Gershaneck’s discussion January 17 will address CCP Political Warfare, the Congressional investigation and report, and implications for democratic Taiwan and the incoming Donald J. Trump administration.
