Taiwan is moving HIMARS rocket artillery forward to Penghu and Dongyin, completing torpedo tests on the Hai Kun submarine, and watching US legislation advance that names 
Xi Jinping's 2027 PLA-readiness directive. The Hai Kun reaches the navy next month, with CSBC chair Chen Cheng-hung setting a 12-submarine target for a modern fleet per US assessment, the Taipei Times reported across a single-day quartet of pieces two days before the Trump-Xi summit.
The HIMARS deployment to Penghu and Dongyin would put Chinese coastal bases within Taiwan's 300-kilometre strike range, with 111 HIMARS and 504 ATACMS planned in the build-out. A national security official, cited in a separate piece on the same day, said intelligence showed the PLA had internally assessed Taiwan's "hellscape" drone strategy and concluded an invasion would face "no chance of victory" — sourcing the leak to the official directly rather than to written assessments.
Washington moved in parallel. A bill introduced by Representative Young Kim calls for a "tiger team" to preplan China sanctions, citing Xi Jinping's directive that the PLA be ready to invade Taiwan by 2027, the Taipei Times reported. Embedding the 2027 framing inside legislative text shifts what had been an intelligence-community datum into a statutory predicate — and ties the sanctions architecture to Beijing's own internal readiness language rather than to any specific Taipei or Washington intent.
The four-track cluster — forward artillery, finalised subs, US legislation, and the leaked PLA assessment — surfaces at the same hour as Trump's announced Beijing trip, with the package sitting on the table as the two leaders meet.
Figures referenced: Xi Jinping, Lai Ching-te. — JudgeMarket.
