TAIPEI - Early one morning last October, 31-year-old Chen Wan-lin and her flatmates leapt out of bed in panic, woken up by the roar of fighter jets over their residential neighbourhood in Taipei.
"I thought we were being attacked by China and it was the end," said the technology consultant.
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