Amid PLA pressure, Taiwan starts drill to simulate rapid deployment in a crisis

Taiwan began a combat readiness exercise on Monday that aims to boost the military’s ability to quickly move to a wartime footing, amid sustained pressure from the mainland. The Chinese mainland’s increasingly frequent air and naval operations in the region have blurred the line between peacetime and wartime and mean that the Taiwanese military will have less time to respond to a crisis, according to officials. The Immediate Combat Readiness Exercise, which runs through Friday, was designed to..