‘New form of war’: an insider view of China’s AI strategy in electronic warfare

South China Morning Post · 🇭🇰 public Hong Kong · May 26, 2026 · 134 words · By Stephen Chen

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‘New form of war’: an insider view of China’s AI strategy in electronic warfare Fusing AI with radio waves can create faster, smarter and more resilient radars and communication methods designed to confuse enemy jammers In a paper published last month, they…

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Their findings were published in the Chinese journal Command Control and Simulation on April 29.

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The team is led by senior engineer Li Fukai with the China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology and the National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, top-tier defence research and development institutes directly involved in…

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that In a paper published last month, they argued that by fusing artificial intelligence (AI) with the very physics of radio wave propagation, China could win a “new form of war” where communications and radars are faster, smarter and far more resilient than anything fielded today?
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“In a paper published last month, they argued that by fusing artificial intelligence (AI) with the very physics of radio wave propagation, China could win a “new form of war” where communications and radars are faster, smarter and far more resilient than anything fielded today.”

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Two separate web search results confirm the core of the claim: one explicitly mentions fusing AI with radio waves to create faster, smarter, and more resilient communication methods to confuse jammers, and another references the specific paper and its goals.

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“Their findings were published in the Chinese journal Command Control and Simulation on April 29.”

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A web search result explicitly confirms that the paper appeared in the Chinese journal 'Command Control and Simulation' on April 29, 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and dec…
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“The team is led by senior engineer Li Fukai with the China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology and the National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation”

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The web search result specifically identifies senior engineer Li Fukai of the China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology as the lead of the paper mentioned in the context of AI-powered electronic warfare.

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“China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology and the National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation [are] top-tier defence research and development institutes directly involved in national strategic programmes.”

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While general evidence confirms that China has national strategic policies for 'informatization' and that the National University of Defense Technology has key laboratories, there is no specific evidence in the provided results that explicitly confirms the 'top-tier' status or direct involvement in national strategic programs for the specific entities 'China Academy of Electronics and Information Technology' and 'National Key Laboratory of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation'.

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