Overview

• Taiwan’s 10-day Han Kuang war games began on July 9 as the largest and longest in the exercise’s history
• A record 22,000 reservists have been mobilized alongside regular forces to participate in live-fire and civil defense drills
• Simulations include communication infrastructure strikes and amphibious landing scenarios to test decentralized command under pressure
• Live-fire exercises feature U.S.-supplied HIMARS rocket systems, Abrams tanks and domestically built Sky Sword surface-to-air missiles
• China’s defense ministry has dismissed the drills as a bluff even as PLA aircraft and naval vessels maintain near-daily patrols around Taiwan