Foreign Affairs: Taiwan’s Defense Minister Wellington Koo said on Wednesday that Taiwan’s military must test whether it can respond quickly to an escalating war as the warning time for any Chinese attack is approaching.
According to Reuters, published on June 24, 2026, Taiwan is holding five days of “immediate combat readiness” exercises this week. The island’s military has begun basing some of its drills on a scenario in which China turned one of its regular drills around the island into a real attack.
China considers democratically-run Taiwan its territory, and its military conducts operations around the island almost daily. China’s newest aircraft carrier sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday. The drills have placed a greater emphasis on the ability to respond quickly and transition quickly to combat readiness, Koo told reporters in parliament. “It aims to build the speed that we believe is necessary for the transition from a peacetime situation to a wartime situation,” he said.
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