While a majority of Taiwanese do not feel war with China is imminent, the number who fear it might be at hand has grown in 2022
It’s a balmy Sunday morning in Taiwan’s capital and dozens of Taipei residents are gathered in a downtown office building, preparing for war.
It’s a sign of the times. For decades, Taiwan has lived under the threat of invasion from China. Beijing’s authoritarian rulers consider Taiwan a breakaway province even though the Chinese Communist Party, which seized power on the mainland more than 70 years ago, has never governed the island. Beijing has not ruled out the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control.
She said she feels “inspired by the Ukrainian people” and their fight against Russia, as well as the Hong Kong democracy movement’s fight against pro-Beijing forces in the former British colony. Ms. Chen says she finds friends and family in Taiwan shy away from talk of a possible war with China – a divisive subject around the dinner table. “My family tries to avoid having this kind of conversation at home – to dodge arguments.”
Puma Shen, an assistant professor at National Taipei University’s Graduate School of Criminology and co-founder of Kuma, said academy courses fill up within 10 minutes of registration opening. He said, however, that he thinks many Taiwanese are still too passive about the threat China poses.
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