# Taiwan drills for wartime communications blackout

https://mins.news/en/item/21047

- BBC Chinese, 2026-08-13 09:19 UTC
- Society
- Original: https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/articles/cp87prg297po/trad?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

> Taiwan held its annual Urban Resilience exercise on August 13 alongside the Han Kuang drills. Seven northern cities and counties conducted a roughly 30-minute mobile-network slowdown, with air-raid alerts and traffic controls. For the first time, the exercise simulated a wartime internet blackout to test responses to damage to undersea cables and other key communications facilities, affecting an estimated 17 million people.

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