Total War on Taipei: China Explores Elevating Cognitive Effects into Its Vision of Warfare

China's explicit incorporation of cognitive warfare into Taiwan conquest doctrine signals a shift toward information dominance as a primary warfighting vector. This raises the Taiwan Strait crisis threshold and directly threatens Australia's alliance cohesion and Indo-Pacific security posture, as Taiwan's fall—by kinetic or coercive means—would fundamentally alter the regional balance and Australia's strategic access.