# LIVE: Taiwan drills wartime internet blackout scenario

https://mins.news/en/video/20896

- BBC Chinese, 2026-08-13 03:21 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rk1kMdJoAc

> Taiwan is holding its annual Urban Resilience exercise alongside the Han Kuang drills. Seven northern counties and cities are conducting a roughly 30-minute mobile-network slowdown on 13 August, with air-raid alerts and restrictions on vehicles and people. The exercise is Taiwan’s first simulation of a wartime internet blackout and is testing responses to damage to key communications infrastructure such as undersea cables, affecting an estimated 17 million people.

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