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Behind SeaLight: China-targeting cognitive warfare platform stokes tensions in South China Sea_我的网站

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在 Take-Two 针对 GTA6 泄露者发出的传票中被点名的 YouTube 博主否认了任何不当行为。今日消息显示,Take-Two 已向联邦法院申请传票,要求微软和 Discord 提供相关信息,以搜寻近期一系列 GTA6 实机演示视频泄露事件的幕后黑手。

China Coast Guard vessel 3303 deploys water cannons on July 24, 2026, against Philippine public vessel MMOV 3001, which had intruded into China's Huangyan Dao waters, forcing the vessel to turn around and sail away from Huangyan Dao. Photo: Courtesy of China Coast Guard
Cloaked in the academic mantle of a Stanford‑affiliated "think‑tank" but operated by retired US military officers; dispatching no warships but endlessly churning out provocation scripts in the South China Sea, and shifting from choreographing footage of maritime stand‑offs to meddling in legitimate China‑Philippine cultural and academic exchanges, the SeaLight has loomed behind numerous China‑Philippine maritime frictions over the past years.
The true nature of the SeaLight, once stripped of disguise, is a well‑orchestrated cognitive‑war tool targeting China. It delivers strategies, provides talking points, furnishes intelligence and cultivates proxies, weaponizing both maritime confrontations and people‑to‑people exchanges to deliberately stir up tensions in the South China Sea.
A cognitive‑war platform
Public information indicates that SeaLight is affiliated with Stanford University's Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation, established in 2021 with sponsorship from the US Office of Naval Research and funding from the US Department of Defense. The funding sources amounted to approximately $12.8 million.
Public records indicate that SeaLight's "director" Ray Powell served 35 years in the US Air Force, including posts in the Philippines, Japan, Germany, and Qatar. In 2022, following his departure from overseas service, he launched "Project Myoushu," which evolved into "SeaLight" in 2023.
When Global Times reporter browsed SeaLight's website, multiple unprofessional features of this self‑proclaimed "think‑tank" came to light. Aside from its "director" Powell, the team counts merely three other members, one of whom is a web developer.
Even so, this same "think tank" smeared China's lawful actions to safeguard sovereignty in the South China Sea on its website as the world's "most expansive and aggressive maritime gray‑zone programs."
In February this year, Guo Wei, Deputy Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in Manila, wrote in an X post that as a US-based organization, SeaLight maintains "an unusually concentrated focus on the South China Sea." It has reacted to maritime developments with remarkable speed, at times even preceding official statements from Philippine authorities.
"Why does SeaLight concentrate so heavily on this specific region? Through what channels does a US-based entity obtain rapid access to satellite imagery and operational information located thousands of kilometers away?" Guo asked.
A Manila‑based source told the Global Times on Friday that SeaLight maintains close‑knit, in‑depth coordination with the Philippine Coast Guard. The two sides sustain long‑term information exchange and intelligence‑sharing, forming a collaborative model through which the Philippines provokes maritime incidents at sea, SeaLight assigns public‑narrative framing, and social media platforms amplify the hype, to stage targeted cognitive‑war games against China.
Billed as a research institute, SeaLight is essentially a China‑targeting cognitive‑war platform centered on a small group of individuals, supplying the Philippines with policy advice, intelligence inputs and public‑narration talking points, Chen Xiangmiao, a research fellow at the National Institute for South China Sea Studies, told the Global Times on Friday.
In addition, it serves as a megaphone for the Philippines, churning out disinformation across social‑media platforms to viciously smear China and fabricate the "China threat" narrative, courting international attention in a deliberate bid to stoke regional tensions, Chen added.
"An ex-US Air Force colonel is now running the show in Philippine foreign relations," Rod Kapunan, a columnist for the Philippines' daily newspaper The Standard, wrote in his article in 2024. He further described Powell as the author of the "transparency strategy," which Philippine officials took as "Philippine policy."
"SeaLight hides its main objective, which is to apply the 'missing context fallacy' to create an anti-China narrative out of the South China Sea territorial claims disputes amongst the five littoral states surrounding the strategically critical body of water," Kapunan said in the article.
"Still, its China‑focused cognitive warfare yields diminishing marginal returns," said Chen, "Repeated lies fail to convince the public. For this reason, it keeps hunting for new material for attacks, yet it can never create any major ripples."
Back in September 2024, an article in The Diplomat titled "The Philippines Should Take Note: 'Assertive Transparency' Is Not a Strategy" noted that it was in 2023, "spurred on by the likes Raymond Powell and the folks at Project Myoushu, that the Philippines began publicizing maritime incidents in the South China Sea." However, what Philippine authorities need to understand is that "assertive transparency" has reached its saturation point.
The second battlefield
For a long period, SeaLight fought its main battles on South China Sea waters, guiding the Philippines to hype stand‑offs and fabricate the false "China bullying the Philippines" narrative. Lately, however, it has shifted its battlefield, targeting normal China‑Philippine cultural and academic people‑to‑people exchanges.
Last month, Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. called for greater scrutiny of foreign academic and cultural exchange programs with China, in response to a SeaLight report that claimed China's Jinan University has become the main broker between China's institutions and Chinese-language schools in the Philippines.
This incident directly forced the cancellation of a three‑week‑long field research trip to the Philippines scheduled for August 4 by Dai Fan, Director of the Center for Philippine Studies at Jinan University.
Dai told the Global Times on Friday that this incident lays bare the fact that SeaLight is by no means a rigorous, neutral academic‑research platform. Instead, it follows a propaganda playbook where conclusions come first and evidence is cobbled together afterwards.
Nevertheless, this simplistic and heavy‑handed narrative is highly deceptive and manipulative in the public opinion arena. It can easily mislead the Philippine public and foster one‑sided perceptions, Dai added.
In an X post on August 2, the Chinese Embassy in Manila further pointed out that the incident marks Ray Powell's "second battlefield" against China, from maritime disputes to civil society.
"His broader objective appears clear: to encourage the Philippines to view nearly every interaction with China through the lens of strategic confrontation, gradually transforming the country into a frontline state in Washington's competition with Beijing. The ultimate goal is to systematically turn the Philippines into a 'proxy battlefield' for containing China," reads the embassy's X post.
The latest report released by SeaLight was immediately echoed by Philippine Defense Secretary Teodoro, underscoring the close collusion between the two sides, Chen noted.
Based on long‑term observations by a Global Times source based in the Philippines, SeaLight, the Philippine Coast Guard and pro‑US, anti‑China hard‑line forces in the country have forged an interconnected chain. They have long sought to push for amendments and upgrades to the Philippines' anti‑espionage law and advance legislation for the so‑called "proxy bill," aiming to establish a systematic, institutionalized anti‑China mechanism.
According to Chen, there is a strong likelihood that Philippine authorities provide financial backing for SeaLight's China‑focused cognitive‑war operations. Meanwhile, Powell and SeaLight have become a key instrument for the Philippine military to secure budget appropriations from Congress.
This strategy creates a sinister closed‑interest loop: stoking maritime frictions, whipping up domestic public sentiment, and pressuring Congress to divert livelihood‑related budgets to the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG). The tenser the maritime situation, the more resources flow to the PCG. By contrast, calm seas strip the force of its rationale for expansion, Chen said.
According to Chen, this opportunistic hype‑driven model adopted by the Philippine side in collusion with SeaLight will ultimately backfire. The South China Sea disputes could have been managed through dialogue to share marine and fishery resources and deliver mutually beneficial outcomes. However, SeaLight keeps stoking conflicts and amplifying divisions, severely undermining the Philippines' environment for peaceful development, at the expense of the Filipino people's vital interests.
Regional countries ought to see through the true nature of such external "think‑tank" projects. They should recognize the harm these entities inflict on regional well‑being, peace and stability by artificially orchestrating public opinion storms over the South China Sea, said Chen.
The Philippines' ill-judged farce of provoking China will sooner or later end in tragedy for itself, Chen warned.
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二 | 据报道,Rockstar Games 的母公司于昨日(8 月 20 日)向纽约南区法院提交了这项申请,作为《数字千年版权法》(DMCA)传票的一部分。该公司希望获取与据称是 GTA6 泄露幕后主使的“CyberLeek”账号相关的记录和信息。该传票要求识别与多个 Discord 服务器成员相关的所有用户账号身份信息。

三 | 文件中提到的其中一个 Discord 服务器是“discord.gg/darkviperau”,被描述为 DarkViperAU 编辑的服务器。DarkViperAU 是澳大利亚 GTA 内容创作者 Matthew "Matt" Judge 的网名,他在 YouTube 上拥有 227 万订阅者,在 Twitch 上拥有近 90 万粉丝。

四 | 本周,Judge 在其各个频道上发布了对泄露的 GTA6 视频的详细分析。在一则推文中,Judge 对 Take-Two 的传票以及其中提到他的名字做出了回应。“我一无所知,”他坚称,“那不是我编辑的 Discord。

五 | 我的两个 Discord 服务器中甚至没有任何泄露片段。”“我很困惑。我确实多次说过他不会开车,所以也许是我导致他在最近的片段中写下了‘Cyberleek 不会开车’?也许他访问过我的 Discord,我不知道。Rockstar 并没有给我发邮件,我怀疑如果他们认为我个人知道些什么,他们会这么做的。”“每个人都在讨论这些泄露内容,希望我不是什么特殊对象。”随后,Judge 在 YouTube 和 Twitch 上进行了一场名为“Take-Two 传唤我的 Discord 以寻找泄露者(新闻)”的直播,以进一步做出回应。显然对近期发生的事件感到震惊,Judge 开玩笑说:“Rockstar 刚刚‘谋杀’了我。不过我好多了。”Judge 表示他在直播中“意外”展示了一张最新的 GTA6 泄露视频截图,但他立即将其撤下并删除,“因为我不想惹麻烦”。

六 | 虽然他的 Discord 中讨论过 GTA6 泄露内容,甚至可能有人分享过,但 Judge 坚持认为自己与这些视频如何流传到互联网上无关。

七 | “我不认识这个泄露者!”Judge 说,“我个人没有分享过任何东西……至少不是故意的。”Judge 继续说道:“我希望这只是公司内部沟通不畅的问题。也就是说,Take-Two 的人不知道我是谁,所以在不知道 Rockstar 的任何人都可以随时给我发私信或邮件的情况下申请了传票。我曾与 Rockstar Games 的人进行过数十次交流。如果 Rockstar 真的对我所做的事情感到不满,我认为他们会直接给我发邮件。或者他们会给我们所有人发邮件,因为我们都在一个社区邮件列表中。”“这段时间很有趣,”他总结道,“伙计们,我相信我会没事的。

八 | 这很奇怪,但我没做错任何事。没人做错任何事。

九 | 这很有趣。绝对是值得载入史册的一件事。为我漫长而奇特的职业生涯又增添了一笔。

十 | ”“如果联邦调查人员问你事情,什么都别告诉他们,”他再次开玩笑说,“否定一切!销毁证据!”文件写道:“受版权保护的材料包括但不限于视听内容、艺术作品、图像、对话或其他创意元素。Take-Two 通过其记录在案的法律顾问提交了一份宣誓声明,确认申请 DMCA 传票的目的是为了获取涉嫌侵权者的身份,且此类信息将仅用于保护 Take-Two 的权利。”Take-Two 和 Rockstar 均未对近期的 GTA6 泄露事件发表评论,也未对法院文件发表评论。尽管传票已经发出,泄露者仍在继续发布 GTA6 实机视频。

十一 | 8 月 21 日,随着又一段实机视频在网上传播,GTA6 泄露事件已进入连续第四天。与之前发布的视频一样,该视频中植入了某种模因币的广告,一名 GTA 粉丝最近追踪到该币种与一家总部位于塞舌尔的加密货币交易所有关,这可能被用于识别泄露者的身份。最新视频上的水印写着:“市值越高 = 泄露越多。”此次泄露发生在一周前,即 Netflix 限时独占的 Grand Theft Auto 6: An Extended Look 发布之前。该节目定于 8 月 27 日周四播出,在 Netflix 独占 6 小时后,将登陆 YouTube 等其他平台。

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