Taiwan prepares for Chinese invasion with virtual ‘tabletop’ military drills

Taiwan prepares for Chinese invasion with virtual ‘tabletop’ military drills. TAIWAN’S top military advisers gathered behind fortified walls to conduct extensive virtual military drills in preparation for a Chinese invasion. The highly classified annual “Han Kuang” drills aim to prepare the democratically-ruled island nation for all manner of Chinese attack including from air, sea, land and cyber. The so-called “tabletop drills” officially began on Friday and will cover around 37 different simulations. In a statement, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence said Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng and Chief of the General Staff Admiral Huang Shu-kuang will be overseeing the process at a command centre. The games this year will involve around 300 military personnel because of Covid prevention protocols and will take place in two stages - tabletop dills and live-fire drills. Rupert Hammond-Chambers, president of the US-Taiwan business council doubted the likelihood of an impending “D-Day-style” invasion.