A growing number of Taiwanese families are moving to Malaysia as a precautionary measure against the risk of military conflict across the Taiwan Strait, treating relocation as a form of personal insurance. One family profiled in the report was spurred by an elderly veteran who witnessed the 1995–96 Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and urged his son to leave after seeing news of China's Fujian aircraft carrier launched in June 2022. The trend reflects deepening anxiety among ordinary Taiwanese civilians about regional security, even as life on the island continues largely as normal.