I love Taipei. I could live there. It is very hot and steamy in Summer time. Winters the temos range to the mid 50s. Of course the pretty Asian women.
I have very fond memories or our family life in Taichung when I was growing up. We lived there from 1971 to 1973 (age 9 to 11) when my Dad was stationed at CCK while flying C-130s in and out of Vietnam.
One of the things I will always remember about Taiwan was how every mountain was hollow (they all had bunkers drilled into them). While China continuously pressures the world and Taiwan to fall under China’s “One China” policy, I seriously doubt China could ever conquer Taiwan by force. (Treachery, perhaps. But never straight up invasion.)
We should cultivate closer ties with the decent and free Taiwanese, and distance ourselves from the slave-labour communist workhouse known as mainland china.