Tsai Li-chu recalls being a young mother on Taiwan’s Kinmen Island, when the shelling would start around 7pm most nights, launched from the People’s Republic of China just a few miles over the sea. “I remember having to run to the shelter with the kids, carrying the baby,” says Tsai, now a retired teacher in her 70s. The bombardments – predominantly shells filled with propaganda leaflets – stopped only when the US government formally recognised.
Tension haunts tiny Taiwanese isles that live in fear of war with China
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