# Digital Defense

Industrialized Digital Warfare: Why China’s Manufacturing Heartland is AI’s New Cyber Battlefield

Qi Xiangdong, Chairman of Qi-Anxin, warns that AI has entered an 'industrialized' phase of cyber warfare, shifting the primary threat from government targets to the manufacturing sector. As attack frequencies rise from years to months, he argues that only a fully integrated, AI-driven defense system can close the widening gap between offensive capabilities and defensive measures.