Taiwan tensions

Beijing could take such an approach in a future attack on Taiwan leadership

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People’s Liberation Army personnel shown in China Central Television footage of the nighttime-raid drill.

YUKIO TAJIMA

January 17, 2026 02:30 JST

BEIJING — Chinese forces recently held a “decapitation” strike drill that appears to simulate the removal of Taiwan’s leadership, shows footage on a military channel of state-run China Central Television.