Powerful U.S. business leaders were smuggled in through the back door of a building in New York City in September 2023 for a tabletop exercise simulating a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
The secrecy made it look like they were “in a witness protection program because they were so concerned about retaliation from the CCP [Chinese Communist Party],” said Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), who hosted the exercise.