Kuan-chen Lee
A scene from Taipei’s 2025 Urban Resilience Exercise, the civil defense portion of the Han Kuang exercise, July 17, 2025.Credit: Office of the President, ROC (Taiwan)
Taiwan’s government has in recent years stepped up efforts to strengthen national defense, societal resilience, and risk communication amid growing security and disaster risks. As part of this push, an updated civil defense handbook – “In Case of Crisis: Taiwan’s National Public Safety Guide” – was released to provide citizens with practical guidance on emergency preparedness. In an unprecedented initiative, the Taiwanese government has begun distributing copies of the guide to households across the island, making it one of the most wide-ranging public preparedness campaigns in Taiwan’s history.
The logic behind this approach is straightforward. In a crisis, the gap between official plans and household readiness can quickly become a strategic vulnerability. A guidebook cannot replace training, stockpiles, or institutional coordination, but it can signal priorities, standardize basic steps, and give citizens a clearer sense of what preparedness looks like in practice.
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