Watching Ukraine, Taiwan worries about its own fate
TAIPEI, Taiwan â Growing up in Taiwan, Huang Yu-lin has become accustomed to chatter about potential military conflict with mainland China. But it wasn't until Russia invaded Ukraine that she started to seriously consider what she would do in such a scenario.
"Hearing it so often, it was a bit like crying wolf," the 32-year-old energy policy researcher said. Now, with a war raging in Europe and deteriorating cross-strait relations, she's begun looking into medical training and browsing war survival manuals. "I've become more and more worried. This is something that needs to be taken seriously," she said.
For days, the world has been captivated by Ukraine, as Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought control of the former Soviet republic's capital,
