China Shows Response to Taiwan's Drone Capabilities in WWII Parade

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China’s recent WWII parade featured counter-drone technology, which GLOBSEC nonresident fellow Bryce Barros says reflects Taiwan’s growing focus on drone capabilities. The event also included references to wartime history that downplayed the role of the Republic of China and the Kuomintang (Nationalists).

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00:00I also thought what was really interesting too, the emphasis on the counter drones that did feel

00:08like a direct way of countering all the messaging that Taiwan's M&D and the Taiwan government has

00:14put out about its own sort of drone capabilities. And from a military political perspective,

00:21something I thought was really interesting in terms of messaging for the parade was the

00:25emphasis the parade put on trying to sort of like sideline the history of the Republic of China

00:31and the KMT to the extent in war. To see China sort of tap into that for this parade

00:37is a way of sort of sidelighting that legacy of the government that currently exists in Taiwan.

00:43And it's a really interesting aspect that I don't think we've seen before.

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