By Ruth Ann Ruiz

The Post Newspaper Features Editor

Second in a series of articles covering my time in Taiwan as an invited member of an international press delegation during Taiwan’s National Day Celebrations

I felt the multi-level building rumble slightly while sitting in a room with Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Lin Chia-Lung, Ph.D., members of his staff, and a delegation of foreign journalists.

That morning, before leaving the hotel, my phone had delivered an earthquake announcement from the Taiwan weather app that I had added before leaving the United States. I had not given much attention to the notification, as nothing seemed to be out of place in Taipei.

With no one in the room giving any attention to the slight rumble of the building, I concluded it wasn’t very import

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