Some Hong Kong artists have since moved to Taiwan, including Chapman To, who is starring in “Zero Day.” A vocal supporter of Hong Kong’s pro-democracy movement, To became a naturalized ...

Concurrently, a People’s Liberation Army Y-8 aircraft goes down in the Taiwan Strait, and Beijing uses search-and-rescue operations as the pretext for a blockade. China also makes a move on an ...

The show “Zero Day,” a 10-episode series, imagines how China could mount a blockade around Taiwan, then try to overrun the island, a possibility that many experts see as increasingly plausible.

Zero Day has faced criticism in Taiwan for “scaremongering”. The opposition Kuomintang party has denounced the series as “government propaganda” ...

The 10-part show, titled Zero Day, is perhaps the first show in Taiwan that shows what an actual invasion by China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) would look like, a threat that has loomed ...

BUZZ IN TAIWAN. For the “Zero Day” crew, confronting such a sensitive topic means facing difficulties, from funding and casting to finding places to film.

But Zero Day addresses the issue of divided loyalties in Taiwan head-on. It features portraits of people whose first instinct is to surrender, while others flee and some collaborate with the invaders.

Taiwan has launched its annual military exercises to counter threats from China, including "gray zone tactics" that stop short of open warfare.

That question is a core theme of “Zero Day,” a forthcoming 10-part TV drama depicting a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. The first episode, described above, premiered this week at Copenhagen’s ...