If China conducts a ground invasion, Taiwan could defend its approximately 20 beaches with anti-landing equipment. However, ...

The barges have road spans longer than football fields that could enable rapid deployment beyond heavily defended beaches.

Last summer China began building several unusual vessels at its Guangzhou shipyard on the south coast. The barges had legs that could drop down to stabilise the craft in shallow water, and wielded a ...

China appears to be conducting amphibious landing exercises with specially built ships at a beach in the South China Sea, the ...

What this means is that a PLA invasion of Taiwan could land troops and military vehicles “across rocky or soft beaches,” multiplying the locations that Taiwan must defend. China’s leaders ...