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Inside Taiwan’s nightmare scenario: Chinese blockade, earthquake, sabotage and invasion
The two-day exercise tested whether local officials and residents could keep services running through blockade, earthquake, disinformation and invasion scenarios.
(Corrects sourcing in paragraph 20) By Yimou Lee, Yi-Chin Lee and Ann Wang NANTOU, Taiwan, July 3 (Reuters) – It was a nightmare scenario for Taiwan: a Chinese blockade, a strong earthquake seized on by Beijing to sow chaos, hijacked television broadcasts, sabotaged infrastructure, a run on banks, civil unrest — and then a full-scale invasion. That was the cascading crisis presented to more than 370 government and military officials during an ex…
This exercise is part of the country's President, Lai Ching-te,'s effort to strengthen Taipei's preparedness, at a time when military pressure from China is increasing - The scenario of an expensive war not being successful
Taiwan has been practicing its worst-case scenario this week, predicting an earthquake that the Chinese would quickly exploit. A blockade of the island, media control, and sabotage would result in a full-scale invasion.
Information war scenarios have also been tested, including the dissemination of Chinese propaganda on television broadcasts and the circulation of false information