Laravel
New-Wave to Taiwan

Published on Oct 4, 2011 by Luke Hunt

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FAR EAST CORRESPONDENT — Just decades ago, all that mainland China brought to Kinmen, a tiny Taiwan-controlled island off the Fujian coast, was trouble.

In the mid-50s, China launched two brutal artillery campaigns that killed over 2,600 island residents and soldiers and prompted the United States to threaten Beijing with a “nuclear response” if the islands were taken. Read more from Cain Nunns in the Global Post.