Over the past few days, we've brought you a series of reports about how Taiwan is strengthening

its military and society in order to fend off aggression from mainland China.

Tonight, Nick Schiffrin looks at how, in recent years, the people of Taiwan have increasingly

identified themselves as Taiwanese, not Chinese, in everything from food to sport.

This is all part of our series, Taiwan, Risk and Resistance.

Welcome to Clarissa Way's kitchen.

It's interesting to see how this dish has evolved.

She's teaching me a classic Taiwanese dish.

Today we're making beef noodle soup.

Served with a dash of history.

People don't realize even the diversity that is in this island.

And a side of politics.

In terms of our political stance, who we are as a country, we are Taiwanese.

So now we're going to add in the noodles.

Wei is the Taiwanese American author of a Taiwanese cookbook whose family has lived on this

island for two centuries.

I'm using black soybean soy sauce today, and that's very unique to Taiwan.

Turns out in this pot of beef noodle soup is the melting pot that is Taiwan.

All of these ingredients together, to me, it really tells the story of, like, resilience

and what it was like in the 50s when the Chinese refugees came over fleeing the Chinese Civil War.

Formosa, last ditched stronghold of the Chinese Nationalist Army.

In 1949, Chinese Nationalists lost the Civil War to the Communists and fled to Taiwan,

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