PENGHU’ERCUN, Taiwan: Taiwan forces simulated an invasion by China Thursday as part of live-fire war games against a backdrop of rising tensions with Beijing. The annual drills are Taiwan’s biggest military exercise and mocked up a scenario in which Chinese troops launched an amphibious assault. They took place on the outlying Penghu Islands, which sit in the strait that separates Taiwan from China. Taiwan expressed outrage earlier this month when it was refused a meeting to the World Health Organization’s annual assembly under pressure from China. Thursday’s war games were part of an annual week-long exercise called “Han Kuang” (Han Glory) aimed at measuring how effectively Taiwan forces could deal with a China attack.

Source: Manila Times May 25, 2017 15:00 UTC