Taiwan slows mobile Internet for drills

CHINESE THREAT: The military also simulated repelling an attack on Penghu and transporting military vehicles from Hualien to Yilan to reinforce defenses in the north By Ben Blanchard and Yimou Lee / Reuters, with CNA Add TT as Preferred Source The government yesterday slowed mobile Internet coverage for a large swathe of the central part of Taiwan proper for the first time during annual war games, simulating communication disruption in the event of a Chinese attack or natural disaster.Taiwan, which has long lived with the threat of a Chinese invasion, holds air raid drills along with its war games every year, clearing people from the streets for 30 minutes.During the Internet “throttling” drill, centered on Taichung, only basic mobile phone services worked, although other functions, includ