Recent activities by 
vessels suggest Beijing is using state-owned companies such as Cosco to prepare for a future assault on Taiwan, which could include commercial vessels acting as Trojan horses for military units.
Chinese ships now routinely visit Taiwanese ports that would have to be seized in the initial stages of any successful invasion — ports that are, in many cases, also home to or located near Taiwan’s most important naval and air bases and other critical infrastructure. OOCL, a Hong Kong unit of Cosco Shipping, China’s largest state-owned shipping group, even controls and operates a two-berth terminal in Kaohsiung Port, Taiwan’s largest port.
OOCL’s terminal sits at the southern terminus of the Sun Yat-sen Freeway. It is also extremely close to Kaohsiung Airport, a major refinery, a power station — all of which are potentially vulnerable to drone attacks.
Taiwan's largest naval base, Tsoying, is only 5 miles away. With only one entry/exit, Tsoying is highly vulnerable.
“If they sink a large vessel in the entrance to Tsoying Naval Base at the beginning of a conflict, then all our destroyers there will be unable to get out — they’ll be sitting ducks.”
thewirechina.com/2025/07/27/chi
vessels suggest Beijing is using state-owned companies such as Cosco to prepare for a future assault on Taiwan, which could include commercial vessels acting as Trojan horses for military units.
Chinese ships now routinely visit Taiwanese ports that would have to be seized in the initial stages of any successful invasion — ports that are, in many cases, also home to or located near Taiwan’s most important naval and air bases and other critical infrastructure. OOCL, a Hong Kong unit of Cosco Shipping, China’s largest state-owned shipping group, even controls and operates a two-berth terminal in Kaohsiung Port, Taiwan’s largest port.
OOCL’s terminal sits at the southern terminus of the Sun Yat-sen Freeway. It is also extremely close to Kaohsiung Airport, a major refinery, a power station — all of which are potentially vulnerable to drone attacks.
Taiwan's largest naval base, Tsoying, is only 5 miles away. With only one entry/exit, Tsoying is highly vulnerable.
“If they sink a large vessel in the entrance to Tsoying Naval Base at the beginning of a conflict, then all our destroyers there will be unable to get out — they’ll be sitting ducks.”
thewirechina.com/2025/07/27/chi
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Chris Horton 何貴森
@heguisen
Scoop: Taiwan's presidential office confirmed to @thewirechina that Chinese civilian vessels that have participated in drills with China's military will be banned from Taiwanese ports.
The majority of these vessels belong to one company: Cosco Shipping.
thewirechina.com/2025/07/27/chi