NEW: Justice Mission 2025 simulated a blockade of Taiwan’s major port cities and the interdiction of Taiwanese energy imports.
Other Key Takeaways:
The PRC deployed 14 China Coast Guard (CCG) vessels during the exercises, indicating that the CCG will play an important role in a blockade or quarantine of Taiwan. The CCG would likely interdict non-military vessels during a blockade to create a veneer of legitimacy under the pretext of “law enforcement” operations.The exercise was likely rehearsing cooperation between the CCG and the PLAN in such activities since PLAN vessels operated together with CCG ships.
The exercise also reportedly rehearsed activities relevant for an invasion of Taiwan including air and amphibious assaults and long-range rocket fire.
Justice Mission 2025 primarily involved assets with significant precision strike, anti-submarine, and anti-surface vessel capabilities and practiced counter-intervention operations to support a PLA blockade of Taiwan.
The exercises likely rehearsed only one component of a multi-domain PLA effort to isolate Taiwan.
PRC messaging framed the Justice Mission 2025 exercises as a reaction to US and foreign encroachment on PRC sovereignty. PRC propaganda serves the secondary purpose of intimidating “Taiwan independence” advocates and delegitimizing Taiwan’s government.
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) Dec 31, 2025
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