The Political Warfare Bureau (GPWB; ) is the affiliated authority of the
Ministry of National Defense (MND) of the
Republic of China (Taiwan) that is responsible for all the
political warfare affairs of the
Republic of China Armed Forces.
History
Since its establishment in 1924, the
Whampoa Military Academy had already set up its political work system. In April 1950, the academy reformed the political work system by changing the Political Staff Bureau to Political Department. In May 1951, it was renamed General Political Department and in August 1963 as General Political Warfare Department with some modifications to its structural agencies. The department was led by deputy director
Yi Kuo-juei
Lieutenant General Yi Kuo-juei (Yi Guo-rui; ; March 7, 1906 – July 3, 1990) was a Chinese Air Force pilot.
Biography
Born in Changsha of Qing Dynasty China's Hunan province, he was the sixth son of Yi Man-sheng (Chinese: 易滿生; pinyin ...
. On 1 March 2002, the Organizational Ordinance of the General Political Warfare Bureau was put into performance.
In response to increasing Chinese Communist Party (CCP) political warfare campaigns on social media in the late 2010s the Political Warfare Bureau set up a team dedicated to the expeditious handling of false information. The Bureau uses
big data systems analysis
Though used sometimes loosely partly because of a lack of formal definition, the interpretation that seems to best describe Big data is the one associated with large body of information that we could not comprehend when used only in smaller am ...
in its efforts to understand and counter CCP disinformation campaigns in real time.
Organizational structure
* General Administration Division (主計室)
* Office of Military Spokesperson (軍事新聞處)
* Military Dependents Service Division (軍眷服務處)
* Military Discipline & Ethics Division (政戰綜合處)
* Counter Intelligence & Security Division (保防安全處)
* Cultural & Political Division (文宣心戰處)
See also
*
People's Liberation Army General Political Department
References
External links
*
{{wikisource, Organization Act of the General Political Warfare Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense
Military installations of the Republic of China
2002 establishments in Taiwan
Government agencies established in 2002
Psychological operations units and formations
Taiwanese intelligence agencies