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Are Taiwan’s Kinmen (Quemoy) Islands in the hot seat?

by Stephen Bryen April 12, 2023April 24, 2023

The Kinmen Islands, today under Taiwan sovereignty and called Kinmen County, are located just off the coast of China’s Greater Amoy barrier island. You can see the Chinese city of Xiamen from Kinmen, which is little more than a mile away. The Kinmen Islands have been known in the West by their old Portuguese name, Quemoy. They […]

Chiang Kai-shek and the Soong sisters. Photo: Wikipedia Commons

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A merged Chinese-Taiwanese flag. Image: iStock/Getty Images

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An aerial view China's aircraft carrier, Liaoning, followed by destroyers and frigates during an exercise this month. Photo: AFP

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Taiwanese or Chinese? An island state’s shifting identities

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Honour guards perform as tourists look on outside the mausoleum of Taiwan's former ruler Chiang Kai-shek in Tahsi, Taoyuan county. Photo: AFP/Sam Yeh

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Thirty years on, memories of martial rule in Taiwan

by Liu Hsiu Wen July 15, 2017February 18, 2020

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