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Hi there, I'm Ed Butler. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service, where today I'm in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan,

with just weeks to go till a key presidential election here.

How some Taiwanese are taking preparations for war with China into their own hands.

We just don't know when will the war happen even. Maybe it's five years later or ten

years later, but we really have to practice. Practice makes perfect, but we need to move. We need to

move quickly. Yes, China regards Taiwan as a breakaway province

and appears to be threatening war.

And if it came to that, would Taiwan stand a chance against mighty China?

They really want to start a war to take over Taiwan, I think, just a matter of time.

I'm not rooting for them, but it's just a fact.

Taiwan, prepping for war.

That's Business Daily from the BBC.

Now stepping inside an old Taiwanese gun emplacement. It's like a bunker, concrete bunker.

You can hear the walls above my head. It's hardly high enough for me to stand. To my right is a little shrine, a little incense burner, presumably left here by soldiers.

There are walls on each side, and in front of me you can see the spikes pointing out towards the sea,

a deterrent to any invading force.

This was built in the 50s when there was a really hot war between here and China.

Shells were flying over by the thousand each week.

Since then, the heat has somewhat lessened in terms of military conflict.

But the threats are ramping up once again.

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