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2014-11-04 01:01
in Ntrips, Taiwan2014, Trips
This day, we spent all our time visiting Kinmen Island. We first went hunting for breakfast:
We started with a local village that was facing towards China, so they had underground tunnels to get around without being killed by shells.
We continued around the island:
This museum did a good job explaining what the battles over these insignificant islands were all about, as in the end, they were just another front of the cold war. The US while not fighting directly gave a lot of help to Taiwan with equipment to stop the spread of communism. In turn, the Taiwanese fought bravely against a superior attacker. The worst part is that MAo Zedong apparently started these attacks against the ROC (Taiwan) to distract its own people trying to create a revolution. Sigh...
the lovely chinese come there with huge boats to illegally take all the sand
more long underground tunnels to avoid artillery
to allow safer resupply, they built many tunnels and used amphibious vehicles to hide in the rocks to unload supplies
this is what the Chinese did to anything reachable above ground
they had huge loudspeakers to disuade the chinese from further attacks against mostly their own
the chinese shot so many shells at the ROC that the locals started making knifes with the metal
the people and building casulaties were heavy though
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