Chinese-operated vessels regularly ply Taiwan’s waters and visit its ports, while one of Beijing’s state-owned enterprises operates berths at the island’s biggest harbor through a Hong Kong subsidiary. Both are national security risks that the island’s government is beginning to address.
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In early December, days before the People’s Liberation Army conducted large-scale exercises around Taiwan, a seemingly ordinary cargo ship arrived in the central Taiwanese port of Taichung, the country’s second most-populous city.
The Hong Kong-flagged SCSC Fortune was, however, no ordinary civilian cargo vessel. Two years earlier it had participated in amphibious infiltration exercises with PLA special forces.
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