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Welcome to Kinmen County, Taiwan s DMZ : Tanks, propaganda and tourists
CNN
3/3/2021
By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN
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The Beishan Broadcast Wall, once a propaganda tool, is now a popular tourist attraction.
On a hilltop on the northwestern tip of Taiwan s Kinmen Island stands the Beishan Broadcast Wall, a towering concrete structure dotted with 48 loudspeakers.
Decades ago, this sea-facing propaganda machine blasted songs by Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng Asia s late eternal queen of pop across a 10-kilometer stretch of sea, her music aimed at residents of the mainland Chinese city of Xiamen. ....

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