Overview
- Organizers deliberately reduced mobile data speeds for about 30 minutes in Taipei and other cities on Thursday to mimic degraded connectivity and force use of backup communications.
- Telecom operators throttled mobile traffic to roughly 256 Kbps while fixed broadband and Wi‑Fi remained available so officials could assess how people and services cope when mobile bandwidth is limited.
- The 10‑day Han Kuang program expanded civilian and private‑sector roles and mobilized thousands of reservists to rehearse sustained defence tasks such as logistics, sheltering and medical evacuations.
- Military components included navy and coast guard anti‑blockade escorts, minesweeper operations, and urban denial drills that simulated blocking bridges and tunnels to slow an advance toward Taipei.
- China’s defence ministry condemned the exercises as provocative and some local critics complained about disruption and partial regional exemptions, while analysts say the drills signal Taiwan’s shift toward whole‑of‑society and communications‑resilience planning with supply‑chain implications.