Chinese military uses model of N. Taiwan city government building for drills

Keelung City Government building joins Presidential Office as target for potential Chinese attack on Taiwan

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/06/04
By:  Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Chinese military has built a full-scale model of the Keelung City Government building for use during its drills, reports said Thursday (June 4).

Over the past few years, Chinese troops have been seen staging mock attacks on a replica of Taiwan's Presidential Office Building in Inner Mongolia, but the recent picture, revealed by the Facebook group TWsoldiers, was the first model of a local government building.

The same complex also featured an imitation of an Indian military base, CNA reported. The news of the mock-ups came as China's tensions with both Taiwan and India have been rising.

Beijing has often threatened the use of force against Taiwan if the island nation attempts to pivot from de facto to de jure independence. Amid the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its passage of a national security law for Hong Kong, China has still repeatedly sent warplanes and ships close to Taiwan.    [FULL  STORY]