Radio Taiwan International
Date: 2018-06-05

This year’s Han Kuang live-fire military exercises entered their second day Tuesday. The

This year’s Han Kuang live-fire military exercises enter their second day Tuesday. (CNA photo by the Ministry of National Defense)

exercises are the country’s largest annual military drill to prepare counterattacks to a potential attack by China.

On Tuesday, the exercises took place over the Danshui River in northern Taiwan with counterattack and anti-penetration operations.

President Tsai Ing-wen meanwhile was at Pingtung’s Jioupeng Military Base in southern Taiwan to oversee missile interception exercises. Later in the day, Tsai was scheduled to head to the southern coast for the anti-landing operations.
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