{"id":72477,"date":"2025-06-18T10:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/18\/taiwan-war-games-china-attack"},"modified":"2025-06-18T10:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T01:08:10","slug":"malfunctions-overreactions-and-a-steep-learning-curve-wargaming-a-chinese-attack-on-taiwan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72477","title":{"rendered":"Malfunctions, overreactions and a steep learning curve: wargaming a Chinese attack on Taiwan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First civilian-led military simulation bringing together teams from the US, Taiwan and Japan revealed a series of potential vulnerabilities<\/p>\n<p>A series of war games in Taiwan has highlighted significant vulnerabilities in how the island and its supporters would respond to a Chinese annexation attempt, as well as growing questions over how much reliance can be placed on the volatile Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Last week former senior military and government officials from the US, Japan, and Taiwan convened in Taipei for a tabletop exercise, led by the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science Foundation. The event was described as the first civilian-led military simulation held in Taiwan, testing responses to a hypothetical attempt by China to annex the territory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jun\/18\/taiwan-war-games-china-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First civilian-led military simulation bringing together teams from the US, Taiwan and Japan revealed a series of potential vulnerabilitiesA series of war games in Taiwan has highlighted significant vulnerabilities in how the island and its supporters &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,88,74,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-japan","category-taiwan","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72478,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72477\/revisions\/72478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}