China's Cyber Incursions: A Theoretical Look at What They See and Why They Do It Based on a Different Strategic Method of Thought - This 2013 paper discusses the strategy behind China's cyber activities. The paper examines the Chinese concept of strategy and how it motivates China's cyber actions. These actions take the form of reconnaissance and system sabotage concepts that result in the fulfillment of strategy and in the development of a preemptive and offensive information deterrence disposition. The paper then examines China's response to the recent Mandiant security firm's report that accused the People's Liberation Army of compliance in attacking 115 US companies since 2006. China's next generation of quantum communications research is briefly discussed as well. The conclusions list the author's opinion regarding how to handle the Chinese in the future, through confrontation or dialogue, based on their thought process. This author argues for interceding into Chinese strategic concepts and changing the objective basis behind their cyber activities. China's invasive cyber activities make perfect sense--to them. Through extensive reconnaissance activities, China gains leverage in three areas: its ability to establish a cyber strategic advantageous posture over potential opponents; its ability to identify key nodes in an opponent's network and gain the potential ability to conduct system sabotage against them if necessary; and its ability to develop a cyber deterrence concept of Chinese-make through the construction of a new type of "show of force," such as the identification and revelation of a potential opponent's cyber geography that deters an opponent from acting. Cyber espionage activities are activated due to a specific strategic thought process and resulting paradigm that subsequently uncovers strategic opportunities.Chinese Information Warfare: A Phantom Menace or Emerging Threat? Mao Tse-tung counseled, "To achieve victory we must as far as possible make