Shortcomings of safety handbookBy Caroline Ying-hsuan Chen 陳穎萱As tensions across the Taiwan Strait continue to escalate, public attention to “whole-of-society defense resilience” has reached unprecedented levels in Taiwan. In response, the government in November released the guidebook In Case of Crisis: Taiwan’s National Public Safety Guide (the “Orange Book”) and distributed it to every household. After reading the handbook, do Taiwanese truly believe they can secure their safety and effectively respond to emergencies? The experimental group was presented with a summary of the handbook, while the control group read an unrelated article about public art installations. Caroline Ying-hsuan Chen is a policy analyst at the Institute for National Defense and Security Research.

Source: Taipei Times January 20, 2026 16:39 UTC