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.
Illustration by Sam Ward
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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