Special envoy to Kinmen
They are citizens of Taiwan but live on landlocked islands in Chinese territory. From Kinmen, the Chinese port of Xiamen is only about 3 kilometers, or only thirty minutes by boat. Here, we talk about building a bridge between the two banks more often than we talk about war. The 50,000 permanent inhabitants of these semi-rural islands often swear by access to the Chinese market. “
We do not recognize ourselves in the political model of the continent
(China, Editor’s note).
But economically, we have no choice
,” says Wu Bo-yang, president of the largest merchants’ association in Kinmen.
However, these islands are geopolitical puzzles. In February, a chase and collision between a Chinese fishing boat, which had entered less than a nautical mile into Kinmen waters, and the Taiwanese coast guard caused the death of two fishermen on the Chinese side. The incident heightened tensions between the two sides…
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