TAIPEI: Chris Chen, a former captain in Taiwan's military, spent a lot of time waiting during his weeklong training for reservists in June. Waiting for assembly, waiting for lunch, waiting for training, he said.

The course, part of the East Asian island's efforts to deter a Chinese invasion, was jampacked with 200 reservists to one instructor.

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