“I believe China will invade Taiwan between 2025 and 2027,” says Wu Jheng Cong, a Taiwanese sofa-maker dwelling in Taoyuan Metropolis. “These rations of meals can final our whole household twenty days to a month.”
He has stocked up on meals, taken up weapons coaching and has weekly gatherings along with his civil defence group, the place they develop their survival abilities.
Native media in Taiwan experiences that round half one million individuals have voluntarily enlisted in civil defence coaching. Wu is one in every of them. “When the conflict comes, issues are going to get robust,” he tells us. His concern is that the Taiwanese army and reserve forces is probably not giant sufficient to resist a army invasion by China, prompting him and his friends to organise and prepare for conflict. “It’s important to begin years earlier than it truly comes,” Wu says.
Whereas many Taiwanese consider China’s rhetoric round ‘reunification’ stays a distant menace, tensions between Beijing and Taipei have escalated dramatically in recent times. Wu believes that fostering a detailed connection along with his coaching companions will probably be what protects him, his spouse and his three-year-old son in case of emergency. “Being in a bunch like this, I’m reminded of my goal. When the conflict comes, there’s somebody to battle for.”
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Filmed by: Joseph Mangat and Wang Chun Hong
Produced by: Tierney Bonini and Antonia Perello
Discipline Producer: Allen Chen
Edited by: Joseph Mangat and Antonia Perello
Sound recording: Ken Wu
Sound Mixing: Linus Bergman
Colourist: Catherine Hallinan
Senior Editor: Donald Cameron