‘GRAY ZONE TACTICS’: A think tank said that China was targeting Taiping Island, but an official said Beijing was not likely to make any real moves due to other claimants By Fang Wei-li / Staff reporter China is replicating the “Kinmen model” of maritime “gray zone” tactics against Pratas Islands (Dongsha Islands, 東沙群島) and Itu Aba Island (Taiping Island, 太平島), a report published on Friday by the Washington-based Jamestown Foundation said.Authored by Chen Yu-cheng (陳育正), an associate professor in the National Defense University’s Graduate Institute of China Military Affairs Studies, the report describes the “Kinmen model” as a four-step “gray zone” strategy of creating a trigger event, carrying out law enforcement operations, launching a propaganda campaign and normalizing the presence.Beij