Michael Kolton and Maa Shyh-Yuan examine Taiwan’s interagency Anti-Fraud Initiative as a blueprint for competing in the cognitive domain against China’s political warfare. In their new Security Nexus Perspective paper, “Competing in the Cognitive Domain: Lessons from Taiwan’s Anti-Fraud Initiative,” the authors highlight how Taiwan’s efforts to counter cyberfraud—leveraging AI-enabled detection tools, public-private collaboration, legislative trust, and transparent metrics—reduced financial losses by 50% in just one year. These pillars offer valuable lessons for democracies facing cognitive warfare, where China’s operations exploit AI, social engineering, and personal data to manipulate perceptions and decision-making. Taiwan’s initiative demonstrates that resilience in the cognitive domain depends on synchronized institutions, partnerships, and public trust rather than authoritarian control.

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