A month on from U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan, an unsettling new normal is setting in.

If there has been a fourth Taiwan Strait crisis, most Taiwanese have barely noticed. They are so accustomed to Beijing’s saber rattling that even the unprecedented live-fire drills of early August, when the Chinese military encircled the island democracy and shot missiles over it, failed to rattle them.

It has been business as usual for pandemic-era Taiwan, with society mobilized against the coronavirus rather than the Chinese military, the economy resilient despite headwinds and a steady roster of foreign dignitaries visiting to show their support for the island democracy.