Taiwan launches major war games to test command flexibility - Reuters
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- Taiwan kicked off its annual Han Kuang anti-invasion military drills, with Reuters and the South China Morning Post describing the exercises as the country's biggest war games to date, aimed at countering a potential Chinese attack.
- The Han Kuang exercises incorporate scenarios for a PLA sea blockade and are designed to test Taiwan's command flexibility under invasion conditions, according to coverage from Reuters and the South China Morning Post.
Why it matters: With the latest Han Kuang drills described as Taiwan's biggest war games and explicitly built around a PLA sea blockade scenario, the exercises serve as a concrete test of whether Taiwan's command structure can coordinate against the specific invasion conditions the drills simulate.
