DONGYIN/NANGAN, Taiwan Lin Jih-shou was brewing tea last month in his popular breakfast joint when he heard the buzz of a plane a rare sound on the remote Taiwanese-held island of Dongyin near China’s coast, which does not have an airport.
Lin Jih-shou was brewing tea last month in his popular breakfast joint when he heard the buzz of a plane a rare sound on Dongyin Island (東引), which does not have an airport.
Lin, 64, rushed outside, but only saw the shadow of what the government later described as a small, propeller-driven Chinese aircraft that most likely was testing Taiwan’s military response.
It was a stark reminder to residents of Dongyin and other islands off China’s coast of the threat from their huge neighbor.
The Matsu Islands were regularly bombarded by China at the height of the Cold War, and the history
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