(23 Jul 2024)
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New Taipei City, Taiwan – 23 July 2024
1. Various of exercise showing objects depicting infrastructure in Taiwan attacked with chemical substances, fire trucks and firefighters responding, specialists wearing yellow suits testing air quality
2. Various of exercise showing infrastructure attacked by missile, survivors walking out of ruins and people waving from a window, and rescuers responding
3. Various of rescuers preventing tilted building from collapsing
4. Wide of Taiwanese President President Lai Ching-te (also known as William Lai) on stage
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Lai Ching-te, Taiwanese President:
“In order to respond to the changing geopolitics, our government must have a plan. I therefore previously announced that I will personally preside over the Society Defense Resilience Committee. This aims at uniting the power of the government with that of the people to strengthen the four resilience(s) that are national defense, people’s livelihoods, disaster prevention and democracy.”
6. Various of Taiwanese army service personnel responding to attack and neutralizing an attacker as part of military exercise
7. Various of a new city train station attacked by enemy missile strike causing fire and firefighters responding, people waving at rescuers in front of the train station as part of military exercise
8. Wide of black smoke caused by explosion
9. Mid of fire burning
10. Various of people acting as rioters fighting over handout goods and other actors protesting as part of exercise
11. Various of police and firefighters responding to people acting as rioters and putting out a fire
STORYLINE:
Taiwan’s president on Tuesday stressed the need for the island to continue exercises simulating an attack by enemies amid ‘changing geopolitics’.
Lai Ching-te, also known by his English name William Lai, spoke as the annual Han Kuang exercises continued across the country.
The exercises, which started on July 22 and will finish on July 26, are the first simulation drills since Lai took office.
Remarking on the exercises, he reiterated the importance of staging them, amid heightened tensions with China.
Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party rejects Beijing’s demands it recognize Taiwan as a Chinese territory.
In New Taipei City, local government authorities tested their capabilities to respond to enemy missile strikes and evacuating people.
Naval and land exercises also took place in other parts of the self-governing island democracy.
However, an approaching typhoon prompted the cancellation of air force drills off Taiwan’s east coast.
AP video by Taijing Wu
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