Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te made a late-night dash in an armored personnel carrier to a command center on August 5 as part of an anti-decapitation drill simulating a Chinese People's Liberation Army strike targeting the head of state; the exercise, part of the Han Kuang 42 annual war games running August 5-14, is designed to show how Taiwan's government would continue to function under a PLA attack

Taiwan's Constitutional Court dissolved the Chinese Unification Promotion Party (CUPP) on July 31, ruling it unconstitutional, one day after Taiwan's Ministry of the Interior announced it would petition the court in early August; the court acted faster than the stated timeline; it is the first time a political party has been dissolved by court order in Taiwan's democratic history; CUPP founder Chang An-le responded by announcing a counter-petition to dissolve the ruling Democratic Progressive Party under the same law

Median-line crossings and joint air-sea patrols continue day after day while the opposition legislature keeps blocking Lai Ching-te's special defence bill