Inside Taiwan’s Fight Against Beijing’s Silent Invasion

Confronted with infiltration and coercion tactics from the Chinese regime, Taiwanese society is fighting back.

People wave flags and cheer at a “Reject United Front, Defend Taiwan” rally in Taipei, Taiwan, on April 19, 2025. Sun Xiangyi/The Epoch Times

Some 100 miles off the Chinese coast, the democratic island of Taiwan has existed for decades under a creeping communist shadow.

Deeming it a breakaway province, the the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been steadily asserting control over the island, bullying it with military jets and simulating what Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, calls “dress rehearsals” for attack.