Taiwan tries to keep coronavirus out while asserting itself against China
by Cindy Chang and Ralph Jennings, Los Angeles Times
Feb 09, 2020
4 minutes
TAIPEI, Taiwan - The playgrounds are full. People linger in cafes for hours. Many are not wearing surgical masks.
Yet fear lurks beneath the surface of this democratic island of 23 million people, separated from China by a narrow strip of ocean.
The political and military threat posed by Taiwan's much larger neighbor is now compounded by an unseen enemy arriving with the flow of travelers in a tightly connected cross-straits economy.
Since the deadly coronavirus began spreading from its epicenter of Wuhan, China, in January, the Taiwanese government has been scrambling to react. At first, officials declared there was an adequate supply of surgical masks to protect people. Then, they restricted
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