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Taiwan Launches Island-Wide Urban Resilience Drills to Fortify Against Chinese Aggression

The first full-scale Urban Resilience Exercise combines civil air-raid drills with Han Kuang war games to simulate mass evacuations under sustained PLA pressure.

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Soldiers set up barricades to block a bridge connecting New Taipei with Taiwan's capital Taipei during the annual Han Kuang military exercises in Taipei, Taiwan July 15, 2025. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Soldiers set up barricades to block a bridge connecting New Taipei with Taiwan's capital Taipei during the annual Han Kuang military exercises in Taipei, Taiwan July 15, 2025. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Overview

  • Sirens sounded at 1:30 p.m. across Taipei and northern cities as defence ministry text alerts ordered residents to abandon vehicles and shelter underground for 30 minutes.
  • The inaugural Urban Resilience Exercise merged Wan An and Min An civilian drills with the 10-day Han Kuang 41 military war games to test mass evacuation and casualty response.
  • Soldiers carried out urban combat simulations in subway tunnels, precision-strike drills and mass-casualty treatment alongside wartime aid distribution at designated points.
  • Taiwan’s defence ministry detected 58 PLA aircraft near the island in 24 hours, with 45 crossings of the unofficial median line in the Taiwan Strait.
  • Beijing branded the exercises futile provocations and has intensified warplane and naval incursions into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone.