The drills on Matsu’s main island of Nangan are part of Taiwan’s annual Minan civil defense exercises, and this year’s scenario for Matsu imagines a date in August 2025 when China first cuts off and then attacks the islands.
NANGAN, Taiwan – Emergency workers on a Taiwan-controlled island next to China’s coast practiced responding to a simulated Chinese attack on Thursday, April 20, a little more than a week after Beijing staged war games around the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
Often shelled by China during the height of the Cold War, Matsu is today a fashionable destination for tourists drawn to its rugged beauty. “If the situation between Taiwan and China becomes more tense, I believe that all colleagues on the response team will know where they should be,” county magistrate Wang Chung-ming told reporters.
Matsu’s vulnerability was underscored in February when the two undersea cables connecting the islands were cut, possibly by civilian Chinese ships, disconnecting the 14,000 people who live there from the internet.
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