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| Tango01 | 27 Oct 2020 10:04 p.m. PST |
… the stigma of military service "If Taiwan is to fend off a Chinese invasion, it will need reluctant recruits like Roger Lin to summon the patriotism that inspired older generations but these days doesn't burn as passionately in the young. The 21-year-old French-language major regards his upcoming mandatory four-month military service as an unnecessary burden, even as complaints persist that such stints are too short to protect the nation compared with the two to three years that previous generations served. Weeks of flaring tensions between China and Taiwan, which has been buzzed by dozens of Chinese warplanes in a disquieting show of force, have not emboldened Lin or changed his mind. If China and its much larger military decides to invade, the island's devastation would be a fait accompli, he said, even with the outside chance the United States would come to Taiwan's defense…"
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