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War with China: Inside Taiwan's biggest ever drills

War with China: Inside Taiwan's biggest ever drills

Update: 2025-07-21
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Amid growing speculation around China’s invasion of Taiwan, the island nation has held its largest ever military exercises. 


Fresh from reporting on live fire drills off the Taiwanese coast, The Telegraph’s Asia correspondent Allegra Mendelson shares the latest on Indo-Pacific tensions with Roland Oliphant.


Also, Roland speaks to Neal Urwitz, close friend of the US Under Secretary of Defense for Policy - Elbridge A. Colby - to discuss the latter’s push to dramatically refocus America’s military might purely on Taiwan.


Read Allegra's dispatch here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/14/taiwan-forgotten-front-line-defensive-drills-may-not-matter/


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Read Allegra's dispatch here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/07/14/taiwan-forgotten-front-line-defensive-drills-may-not-matter/


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War with China: Inside Taiwan's biggest ever drills

War with China: Inside Taiwan's biggest ever drills