Guest wrote:
> My sister lives in Taipei, Taiwan. Should she leave now? She has
> never taken the mainland threat serious, but I have always found
> her to be arrogant and stupid. Part of me wants her to suffer for
> it, but she is still family. Is war with China weeks away?
War with China is certainly coming, and indeed Chinese media threaten
war with Taiwan almost on a daily basis. However, it will be at a
time of their choosing, so it could be in a few weeks, next year, or
after that. There's no way to predict the timing.
But there are philosophical issues buried in your question. You tell
your sister she should leave Taipei. But she has to go somewhere, and
unless she's going to hide out in Chile or Namibia, she may reach the
perfectly reasonable conclusion that when she moves, she'll be no
safer than she is now from a Chinese war. So she may decide that if
she's going to die anyway, then she might as well die at home.