By Yi-Chin Lee and Ann WangKAOHSIUNG, Taiwan, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Taiwan’s military on Thursday simulated repelling a Chinese assault from the sea, integrating shore-launched missiles and drones with fast patrol boats to stop an attempted invasion. China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, has never renounced the use of force to bring the island under its control. Earlier this week, the military showed how its U.S.-made HIMARS – High Mobility Artillery Rocket System – would be used to hit the Penghu islands in the Taiwan Strait should Chinese forces seize them first and use them as a base to launch strikes on Taiwan proper. The Lockheed Martin LMT.N HIMARS, one of Taiwan’s newest and most precise strike weapons, has been used extensively by Ukraine against Russian forces. (Reporting by Yi-Chin Lee and Ann Wang; Writing by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Thomas Derpinghaus)(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2026.