Han Kuang drills rehearse invasion fighting

CRACKING THE CORDON: The exercise assumes the PLA had achieved a blockade that Taiwanese soldiers would seek to break, while laying mines and preparing a larger defense By Chen Yu-fu and Jonathan Chin / Staff reporter, with staff writer Add TT as Preferred Source Taiwanese armed forces are to simulate fighting a Chinese invasion of Taiwan proper and spreading weapons manufacturing across different locations to sustain combat operations in next month’s annual Han Kuang military exercises, the Ministry of National Defense said yesterday. Han Kuang 41, this year’s large-scale drills, is to take place from Wednesday next week to Aug. 14, Major General Lu Wen-yuan (呂文元), head of the Joint Operations Division, told a news conference in Taipei. The exercise would be comprised of computer-assisted