TAIPEI—Taiwan officials said Chinese aircraft and warships rehearsed an attack on the island on Saturday, part of Beijing’s retaliation for a visit there by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that has also seen it halt talks with the United States on issues including defense and climate change. Pelosi’s brief visit this week to the self-ruled…
Taiwan Says Chinese Warplanes and Ships Conduct Attack Simulation Exercise
Taiwan President Oversees Drills on Warship, Lauds Determination for Defense
SUAO—Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen boarded a naval warship on Tuesday where she lauded the military’s determination to defend the island while overseeing its largest annual naval and air exercises. The military drills, which simulate the repulsion of an invading force, coincide with air-raid exercises across the island as it boosts combat preparedness in the face…
Taiwan Launches Drills Simulating China Missile Attack
July 25, 2022
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Roads were cleared and people ordered to shelter indoors throughout Taiwan on July 25, as the island’s democratic government conducted drills simulating a missile attack by communist China. A pre-announced “missile alert” text message was sent by the government, and sirens blared to life, announcing the mandatory drills early in the afternoon. Whole cities across…
Japan Holds Large-Scale Drills for 1st Time Since 1993 Amid Chinese Assertiveness
September 15, 2021
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Japan has started a nationwide full-scale military drill on Wednesday for the first time in nearly 30 years as it aims to enforce its capabilities to defend remote islands amid China’s assertive actions in the Indo-Pacific. “In order to respond effectively to various situations, including attacks on the islands, it is essential that the necessary forces…
US Warship Transits Taiwan Strait After Chinese Assault Drills
August 28, 2021
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WASHINGTON—A U.S. warship and a U.S. Coast Guard cutter sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Friday, Aug. 27, the latest in what Washington calls routine operations through the sensitive waterway that separates Taiwan from China, which claims the self-ruled island. The passage comes amid a spike in military tensions in the past two years between…
Russia, Ukraine Hold Military Drills, NATO Criticizes Russian Troop Build-Up
MOSCOW/BRUSSELS—Russia and Ukraine held simultaneous military drills on Wednesday as NATO foreign and defense ministers began emergency discussions on the massing of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border. Washington and NATO have been alarmed by the large build-up of Russian troops near Ukraine and in Crimea, the peninsula that Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014,…
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