KINMEN, Taiwan – Standing on the shore of Taiwan's Kinmen island, Taiwanese tourists snap photos of the skyline of the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen that is clearly visible across the sliver of water separating them.
KINMEN, Taiwan – Standing on the shore of Taiwan 's Kinmen island, Taiwan ese tourists snap photos of the skyline of the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen that is clearly visible across the sliver of water separating them.For the best view of Xiamen's skyscrapers, visitors stand on a beach where anti-landing spikes jut out — a reminder of when the island was a battlefield front line after Chinese nationalists fled to Taiwan in 1949.
otherwise we will be taken by them. We should keep a distance, be armed so we can have a counterbalance against them,' he said.'Peaceful reunification'On the verdant island of Pingtan, in the eastern Chinese province of Fujian, hundreds of tourists gather at a seaside site, the closest place in mainland China to Taiwan.Pingtan is about 125 km from Taiwan island — too far for visitors to see the other side with the naked eye.
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