Taiwan's military fires a rocket as part of 2020 exercises to repel an enemy's attack.
Taiwan's military fires a rocket as part of 2020 exercises to repel an enemy's attack.
  • Chinese media took aim at Taiwan's new, longer-range cruise missile.
  • It can reportedly strike well into China with an estimated range up to 930 miles.
  • A Chinese effort to invade Taiwan would be complicated if Taiwan can strike its mainland.

Taiwan's new long-range cruise missiles are slow and easy to shoot down, Chinese media reports — claims whose truth depends on many unknowns.

But it does show that Beijing is paying close attention to Taiwan's development of advanced weapons that could take on an invasion force and even knock out some of the command centers and missile launchers on the mainland.