Like most people in Taiwan, 16-year-old Wei-Yu Lu has repeatedly been reminded in recent months that his freedom is in peril. For several days in early October, dozens of Chinese fighter jets invaded Taiwan’s air space—a deliberate
Lu, an 11th-grader at the High School of National Taiwan Normal University in the capital city of Taipei, sees these events and other aggressive moves by China as deeply worrying.
“To be honest, I am really concerned about the future of Taiwan,” he says. If his homeland came under the control of the Communist government in Beijing for the first time ever, he adds, “Taiwan would definitely lose the democracy and