TAIPEI — Phone in hand, the middle-aged woman gestured to the Taipei intersection, where an infantry platoon unloaded sandbags on the pedestrian crossings.
“My Uber is waiting for me just there,” she said in Mandarin, pointing behind them. The bespectacled military policeman blocking her path with a T112 assault rifle apologized: She’d have to find another way around.
Soon after, Clouded Leopard infantry fighting vehicles emerged between the shophouses, opening fire with blanks into a killbox the Taiwanese formed with barricades. Military police covered the roads with smoke grenades, several leapfrogging through the streets under covering fire…
