Emily Wu calls Nancy Pelosi's visit a "historic moment" that she sadly missed due to her back pain.
The head of Taiwanese media company Ghost Island Media regrets not being at the airport when the "speaker" of the US House of Representatives landed in the Taiwanese capital last Tuesday.
And that she didn't go to the Grand Hyatt Hotel the next day to see the politician live.
Friederike Böge
Political correspondent for China, North Korea and Mongolia.
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"I was very, very grateful that she came," says Emily Wu, who has made a name for herself with her podcasts in Taiwan.
Taiwan has been isolated internationally for decades.
"Now we are hearing more voices that are ready to confront China." It used to be difficult to convey to the rest of the world that a Chinese attack on Taiwan would also be a problem for the world.
That's different now.
Pelosi's visit made this global alliance even more visible.
"It gives me confidence."
Emily Wu is sitting in a coffee shop in Taipei on Sunday.
It's the third day of Chinese military maneuvers.
On the first day, China fired missiles over Taiwan.
At the weekend, the Chinese military simulated an attack on Taiwan with ships and planes off the Taiwanese coast.
The propagandists in Beijing released images that gave the impression that a Chinese warship was within sight of the Taiwanese city of Hualien.
Taiwan spoke of disinformation.
There is no sign of any of this in the café in Taipei.
Wu lets her camera wander through the garden.
This demonstrative composure can be observed everywhere in Taiwan at the moment.
In the Matsu Islands, tourists threw a foam party to techno music on Saturday night, shortly after China entered airspace over Matsu in an "unidentified flying object."
On the day China sent missiles, Taiwanese posted pictures of children snorkeling off the coast online.
“We have been living with the military threat from China for so long.
We are jaded.
It's become a part of who we are," says the podcaster.
But people are careful.
The images of serenity are intended as a signal to Beijing: you cannot intimidate us.
And they're a message to the world that many Taiwanese don't quite find themselves in the global headlines.
There's this feeling of being seen only as "collateral damage of global politics," says Wu.
She therefore produces many of her podcasts in English to make Taiwanese voices easier to hear.
For the same reason, the Taiwanese government just launched a new English-speaking channel: Taiwan Plus.
America has accused China of using Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan as an excuse to increase military pressure on Taiwan.
Wu thinks so too.
“China would always find a reason to behave like this.
If it wasn't this one, it would have been someone else."