Overview

• For the first time, Taiwan combined its Wan An and Min An civil defence drills into a single, islandwide Urban Resilience Exercise staged alongside the record-sized Han Kuang 41 military simulation.
• Sirens blared at 1:30 p.m. on July 17 across Taipei and northern cities to enforce a mandatory 30-minute street evacuation under real-time defence ministry alerts.
• Troops rehearsed grey-zone harassment tactics, long-range precision strikes, mass-casualty response plans and wartime aid distribution to mirror evolving PLA coercion strategies.
• Units carried US-supplied Stinger missiles and HIMARS launchers during urban warfare drills around the capital to signal closer Taiwan–US defence cooperation.
• Taipei’s defence ministry detected 58 Chinese military aircraft in the prior 24 hours, including 45 crossings of the unofficial median line, highlighting persistent PLA pressure.