Taiwan's troops are training to fight China in ordinary neighborhoods as people go about their days

Taiwan's Han Kuang exercises are carried out right in the middle of neighborhoods and city streets. Ann Wang/REUTERS Taiwan held a slew of military exercises this month to simulate a Chinese invasion. For 10 days and 9 nights, its troops skirmished and drilled in public view on city streets and alleys. The island hopes to help people become familiar with the military and think about war scenarios. 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.