Reporter's Notebook: Eyewitness to Taiwan's annual military drills amid growing China threat

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TAIPEI - Taiwan’s annual Han Kuang exercises took place this past week. The yearly war drills aim to rehearse combat readiness for a potential Chinese invasion. Our team traveled to the island to join the military and speak to officials about the annual war games.

While a typhoon grounded several of the air force drills, other exercises took place across Taiwan. Throughout the week, troops opened fire on mock invading forces approaching the island and rehearsed rapid response drills to an attack.

"When you’ve got such a giant threat besides you, any kind of preparation – you cannot say it's enough," said MP Wang Ting Yu, co-chair of Taiwan’s defense and foreign relations committee. "The next few years, maybe three or five years will be a crucial moment to Asia, to the world. Once we do something right, we can deter or postpone that potential conflict," he told Fox News.

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China views the democratically governed island as its own. Taiwanese government officials argue their best defense is deterrence.

An example of Taiwan’s defensive tactics is the island’s "porcupine strategy". Taiwanese researchers explain that with enough small defense mechanisms, the military could disincentivize an attack.

"We are trying to procure more precision weapons, maybe long range, maybe short range, missiles, air defense