As China waged extensive military exercises off the coast of Taiwan last week, a group of American defence experts focused on their own simulation of an eventual – but for now entirely hypothetical – US-China war over the island.

An anti-ship Brave Wind II missile is fired from a war ship in Taiwan’s eastern waters before last week’s stand-off with China.

The US can defend Taiwan, but would lose half its airforce, war game shows comes via ChinaTechNews.com.