TAIPEI, Taiwan—China will likely escalate its tactic of using military exercises and media coverage of them to manipulate Taiwanese public opinion, according to a recent military research paper.
Institute for National Defense and Security Research, a think tank set up by Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense, came to such a conclusion based on analysis of recent Chinese military exercises conducted off the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian provinces at the end of July. Those two Chinese provinces are just across the strait from the self-ruled island of Taiwan.
