Yes could be just hype, it just feels like the usual drumbeat of war that comes prewar to me.
Even so, the US still needs a Ukraine style Asian proxy willing to fight and die on the ground before kicking off.
That could end up being Philipines, much bigger pool of meat there for starters🥓
We spend about 2 months a year in Taipei. China is pretty low on the list of worries. Pollution and dangerous driving are far more of a concern.
And? I don’t give a fuck if they’re foreigners. Are other people’s brakes going to work better and are they going to drive better because I’m white? Or are we foreigners somehow safer? Are you saying that foreigners are safer drivers?
If this bull had a meaningful conclusion at all, that would be awesome.
Lmao 
And motorcyclists just deserve to die? It’s not dangerous just because motorcyclists die? The most effective – both in terms of space efficiency and time in transit –method of getting around anywhere outside of MRT-serviced Taipei on an island of this population and this size, and we should just… disregard it? Or would you prefer everyone drives cars and turn the country into a parking lot shithole like much of the USA with 6 hour traffic jams?
Already resolved then. All it took was some half-hearted tariffs and the whole house is crashing down. The problem isn’t US, it’s that China doesn’t accept people not kowtowing.
Taipei has almost no pollution AND traffic related death rate is very low in Taipei.
The fact that very few foreigners died in car accidents means that OP doesn’t need to worry about the traffic at all.
Actually you will never die at all in Taiwan.
I didn’t say they deserved to die. It’s simply an inherently dangerous mode of transport and if you choose not to use it you’d be fine.
What about when I am nearly mowed down by a scooter while minding my own business walking on an actual sidewalk, pretty much every day of the week? Am I “fine” then?
Ok, seriously, this is the assessment of a former officer of the 101st Airborne.
Maybe you should pay more attention to your surroundings. That never happens to me.
Compared to where we spend the other 10 months a year, pollution and traffic safety are significantly worse in Taipei. You may be fine with low Taiwanese standards and expectations but the OP may not.
On the beach in New Zealand, of course…
Ah ok, makes sense. The guy in the video though, lol. He was talking there as if he had mixed up the labels and had reviewed the facts for China, Texas by mistake. I bailed at “So you got this big swell of relatively well educated young Chinese: not very many of them” A big swell of not very many? 
Don’t forget all the pedestrians.
Anyways, for someone who is accustomed to the traffic here, I can understand why it doesn’t seem unusually dangerous. It’s like a scuba diver telling a fish it seems awfully wet in the ocean.
As to OP’s question about safety vis-a-vis China, they’re much more likely to have a traffic accident. They’re much more likely to feel unsafe walking down a green painted sidewalk as cars run red lights and fail at left turns.
You’re telling me you’ve never been walking though a park and then suddenly there is a scooter flying past you? Why the FUCK should I be looking around for scooters when I am walking on a sidewalk in a park? I am walking on a sidewalk. I expect people walking, people jogging/running, people in wheelchairs being pushed by someone else, and, at fastest, bicycles. There is NO reason I should be wondering if a scooter is about to flatten me. It’s not a fucking road for vehicles.
I had a classic moment there last weekend. The man turns green. I’m about to step out but a cyclist comes whizzing through breaking the red. He encounters another cyclist - also breaking the red from another direction - and nearly falls off his bike. The second cyclist is oblivious to the near miss and continues on his merry way. The guy who nearly fell starts shouting after him giving out to him for breaking the red.
Man, that must have been a wild night. 
Of all the times I typed “walking”, you managed to catch the one that missed the “l”. But now I’ve fixed it, so there!
