Army to conduct live-fire exercise on Tainan's Xishu Beach Dec. 28
ROC Central News Agency
11/22/2023 08:01 PM
Taipei, Nov. 22 (CNA) Public access to Tainan's Xishu Beach will be partially restricted on Dec. 28 due to live-fire Army drills, according to the Fisheries Agency.
In the notice issued Wednesday, the agency said the drills would take place from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., adding that police and military would be on site to implement traffic controls.
According to military officials, since Xishu Beach is located in downtown Tainan, no live fire drills have previously been held there.
However, an anti-landing drill with hundreds of soldiers and CM-11 tanks took place at the beach during the Han Kuang No. 28 drill in 2012, but without live-fire exercise, military document shows.
Xishu Beach, a popular tourist spot, was one of several beaches in Taiwan listed as vulnerable to an amphibious landing by the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in American scholar Ian Easton's 2017 book "The China Invasion Threat."
Since the beaches were more vulnerable to the PLA amphibious invasion, Taiwan's military has conducted drills, firing practices and tabletop war games multiple times at the locations in recent years.
(By Matt Yu and Evelyn Yang)
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