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Today, Taiwan is preparing for war on the metro, in the streets, and inside its supermarkets.

The self-ruled island carried out a logistics drill in the capital subway system early Monday,

simulating the redeployment of troops and supplies under an invasion scenario.

As Taiwan wraps up its biggest military drills ever,

what does it feel like to live in a place rehearsing for invasion?

I'm Manuel Rapalo, and this is the take.

My name is Willing My name is Willing Mian.

I am a senior Northeast Asia analyst for International Crisis Group,

a Brussels-based global conflict prevention organization.

William, welcome to the take.

So every year, Taiwan holds the Hong Kong military exercises. These are drills that simulate what it would be like for the island to respond

to a potential attack by China. Now, this year's drills are now wrapping up, but they've been

significantly different than they have in past years. Can you describe to us what that's been

like? What's it looked like for people on the ground? What are people seeing, hearing, experiencing?

Yeah, so this year's exercise is the longest ever in Taiwan's military drills history.

It's been extended to 10 days, And the biggest difference this year is that

the citizens are seeing all these military aircraft and the cars and the armor vehicles and

the soldiers actually walking in front of them, like hopping up,

emerging from the metro stations,

and actually like also carrying weapons that they usually wouldn't see in real life.

Officials say the drills are designed to replicate full combat conditions

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