‘Being able to invading Taiwan doesn’t imply you are going to launch it’

China is holding its second day of drills round Taiwan, which it claims as its personal, simulating a blockade of the island’s key ports and assaults on maritime targets. The drills are the sixth since 2022, and the second to incorporate a blockade simulation. However ‘being able to an invasion doesn’t imply you are going to launch it’ says Charles Parton, Senior Affiliate Fellow on the Royal United Companies Institute in London and ex-diplomat in Beijing.