They are getting their stories ready, just like preparing obits ahead of time. You know they will be needed sooner or later.
Be aware that more and more, recently, these stories appear on Telegram channels, days or even a week or so, before they appear on the web and thus on FR.
Yes, the way obits are prepared in advance (and sometimes published prematurely). Or maybe they were testing how various entities — foreign, domestic, public, private — would react in the event of an actual invasion.
I travel to the Philippines and HK yearly. Taiwan’s airport is probably the only one I observed where every “security guard” is armed with semi auto’s.