Taipei, June 30 (CNA) Kinmen County's first McDonald's restaurant will officially open on Saturday, but many people in the outlying county decided to give it a try on Friday during its soft opening.
The Kinmen and Matsu challenge
By Jerome Keating
Chiseled into rock in Kinmen County’s Jinhu Township (金湖) are the Chinese characters for one of Chiang Kai-shek’s (蔣介石) favorite memes. Translated they read: “Remember our days at Ju” (毋忘在莒), referencing the Warring States period when the armies of the state of Qi were forced to retreat to the city of Ju. Once there, they regrouped and returned to regain their lost territory.
That meme serves as an important yet also an ironic reference in understanding the “limbo state” of Taiwan and why it needs to break its nebulous past with Kinmen and Matsu.