![]() And then, also, in the long-term, you hope to deter that activity because now, the gray zone actor – China – is paying a reputational cost. Our hypothesis is that if you illuminate gray zone activity, you do two things: You build resilience into your own society against that activity, so that people begin to expect and give you room to push back. How do you know it was us?” So what the Philippines has been doing with releasing photos and videos of incidents has been trying to illuminate this gray zone. If China, for example, harasses a Filipino fisherman, or points a laser at a Philippine Coast Guard ship, they can attempt to say “That didn't actually happen, you're making that up. What makes the South China Sea a hotbed of gray zone activity is that most of what happens there happens outside the public eye. Raymond Powell : We are talking about activities of a state actor – in this case, we're talking about China – that can't be directly attributed to them, or which fall in a nebulous legal area where they can act without being directly seen, or noticed, or publicly held accountable. Radio Free Asia: Project Myoushu is about China’s “gray zone tactics” in the South China Sea. The following has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Part of Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation, the project seeks to develop tools to counter Beijing’s “gray zone” tactics in the South China Sea. Air Force who retired in 2021 and now runs Project Myoushu. Radio Free Asia sat down for a chat with Raymond Powell, a 35-year veteran of the U.S. ![]()
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