# Inside Taiwan’s plan to deter a Chinese invasion

https://mins.news/en/video/20573

- DW News, 2026-08-12 19:49 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAWvnuZ6S-8

> Taiwan is holding its largest annual war games this week as it tests a strategy for deterring a Chinese invasion. The plan relies on mass-produced, low-cost drones intended to overwhelm an invading force. It draws partly on lessons from the war in Ukraine. Stacie Pettyjohn, director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security and a co-author of a major report on Taiwan’s drone defense strategy, assesses whether the approach could work.

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