# Taiwan stages its first half-hour internet outage drill

https://mins.news/en/item/19010

- BBC Chinese, 2026-08-11 11:00 UTC
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- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/cm2g51m6vlpo/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Taiwan’s 2026 Urban Resilience Exercise has introduced an internet-outage scenario for the first time. The exercise considers the possibility of communications being disrupted during wartime. A BBC Chinese reporter visited the scene in Taichung to hear how residents viewed measures to slow internet access.

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