Chinese man enters Taiwan on inflatable boat, raising concerns about island’s defence

TAIPEI – A Chinese man tried to illegally enter northern Taiwan on Sept 14 on an inflatable rubber boat that went undetected by radar systems, raising alarm bells about gaps in the island’s coastal defence capabilities amid heightened cross-strait tensions.

While the 30-year-old man surnamed Wang, who was eventually spotted by anglers in Taiwan, claimed that he had fled China to seek a new life, analysts are not ruling out the possibility that the incident could be a part of Beijing’s grey-zone tactics against the island.