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Matsu
Matsu or Ma-tsu , Taiwanese island, in the East China Sea, off Fujian prov., China, E of Fuzhou, and c.100 mi (160 km) from Taiwan. Along with Quemoy , it remained a Chinese Nationalist outpost after the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949. The People's Republic of China began bombarding... Read more |
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Quemoy
Quemoy , Chin. Chinmen, Kinmen, or Jinmen, Taiwanese island group (1990 pop. 81,479), Taiwan Strait, just off Fujian prov., China, and c.150 mi (240 km) W of Taiwan. The group consists of the islands of Chinmen and Little Chinmen and 12 islets in the mouth of Xiamen Bay. The town of Chinmen,... Read more |
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Taiwan
Taiwan , Portuguese Formosa, officially Republic of China, island nation (2005 est. pop. 22,894,000), 13,885 sq mi (35,961 sq km), in the Pacific Ocean, separated from the mainland of S China by the 100-mi-wide (161-km) Taiwan Strait. Together with many nearby islets, including the Pescadores and... Read more |
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Lee Teng-hui
Lee Teng-hui , 1923-, Taiwanese agricultural economist and politician, president of Taiwan (1988-2000). Born in Taiwan when it was ruled by Japan, he was educated at Kyoto Imperial, Iowa State, and Cornell universities. A member of the Kuomintang , he served on the Joint Commission on Rural... Read more |
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Tainan
Tainan or T'ai-nan , city (1994 pop. 706,811), W central Taiwan, on the Taiwan Strait. The fourth largest city of Taiwan, it has industries producing metals, textiles, machinery, processed foods, and handicrafts. It is also a center for the marketing and processing of sugarcane, rice, peanuts,... Read more |
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Chinese (Taiwan)
Taiwanese ETHNONYMS: Formosan, Republican Chinese The Chinese who live on the island of Taiwan are of fairly recent mainland origin. The indigenous people of the island are represented by seven tribes who speak Malayo-Polynesian languages and who numbered 338,151 in 1991. The Chinese, in... Read more |
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East China Sea
East China Sea arm of the Pacific Ocean, c.480,000 sq mi (1,243,200 sq km), bounded on the E by the Kyushu and Ryukyu islands, on the S by Taiwan, and on the W by China. It is connected with the South China Sea by the Taiwan Strait and with the Sea of Japan by the Korea Strait; it opens in the N to... Read more |
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Taipei
Taipei , city (1995 est. pop. 2,632,863), N Taiwan, capital of Taiwan and provisional capital of the Republic of China. Taiwan's largest city, it is the administrative, cultural, and industrial center of the island. The major industries produce electrical and electronic equipment, textiles, metals,... Read more |
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Pescadores
Pescadores , Mandarin Penghu or P'eng-hu, group of 64 small islands, area c.50 sq mi (130 sq km), in Taiwan Strait, c.25 to 30 mi (40-50 km) off the west coast of Taiwan. They comprise a county of Taiwan. The largest islands are Penghu, Yuweng, and Paisha; Ma Kung, on Penghu island, is the chief... Read more |
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South China Sea
South China Sea western arm of the Pacific Ocean, c.1,000,000 sq mi (2,590,000 sq km), between the SE Asian mainland and Taiwan, the Philippines, and Borneo. It is connected with the East China Sea by the Taiwan Strait. The Gulf of Tonkin and the Gulf of Thailand are its chief embayments. The... Read more |
 "The Economist (US)")
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Dancing with the enemy.(Taiwan's relations with China)
...hostility between Taiwan and mainland China...Kinmen (also known as Quemoy), a tiny island controlled by Taiwan but shrouded by the...fare, selected by Taiwan's "political warfare...war legacy on this fortress of an island. Taiwan... |
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Taiwanese Troops Kill Chinese Fisherman
...off the military island fortress of Quemoy, an official news...200 yards north of Quemoy, just six miles from China, Taiwan's Central News...has long accused Taiwan of firing at Chinese...Taiwanese offshore islands. |
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Electrolux vacuums up firm after firm
...grow to 125,000. Come to Quemoy TAIPEI: The Taiwan government plans to promote its offshore fortress of Quemoy as a tropical holiday island in order to offset both...mainland China is receiving and Taiwan's own image of belligerence... |
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Tug of war continues between China and Taiwan.(Originated from Knight-Ridder...
KINMEN, Taiwan _ Nothing is what...raging between Taiwan and China. Kinmen...its old name, Quemoy _ is the outermost island of Taiwan, less than 1...Taiwan's outer islands. For the nearly...Kinmen, became a fortress, with the civilian... |
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CHINA FIRES MISSILES AT TAIWAN 'ROUTINE' TESTS LAUNCH INTIMIDATION...
...sentiment on the island before its first presidential election. Taiwan angrily protested...announced by China, Taiwan's Defense Ministry...but no explosives. Taiwan radio broadcast repeated...Taiwan into an island fortress; its 400,000...exercise session on Quemoy, a ... |
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China reaches across the sea to Taiwan
...the mainland and Taiwan is evident in the...of attrition with Taiwan, with the Taipei-controlled island of Jinmen (Quemoy) lying just offshore...leaflets. At Hulishan Fortress in Xiamen, a former...telescope at distant islands decked with what...estimated 5,000 Taiwan ... |
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Swords into art on Taiwan Art
...living on Kinmen, an island controlled by Taipei in the Taiwan Strait, when it was a fortress in the cold war...mainland China and Taiwan.He was born on...known in the West as Quemoy) in 1938 and his...Nationalists fled to Taiwan and turned Kinmen... |
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Taiwan marks battle anniversary with peace call
...era of peace with Taiwan as he marked the...archrivals on an outlying island. Ma made the appeal...island also known as Quemoy just miles (kilometers...People across the Taiwan Strait must not...later built nearby Taiwan into a fortress, resisting Beijing... |
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CHINA MAGIC: AMERICA'S GREAT REALITY HIATUS, 1948-73
...Formosa, or "beautiful island." (As late as the...in the 1970s did "Taiwan" gain official currency...the names of offshore islands such as Quemoy and Matsu, intermittently...Japanese-occupied island fortress, or for centuries... |
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Large forces pull at a tiny place
...NewsThe windswept island of Kinmen has occupied...of Fujian than to Taiwan and are debating...crossed. "Kinmen and Taiwan will grow closer...Shek - - who fled to Taiwan after losing a civil...Communists, it became a fortress. When Mr. Chen...professor at National Quemoy University in ... |
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