So, This Is The Place We're Gonna Fight WW3 Over? (#218)

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World War 3. That’s a pretty scary phrase, right up there with the words "nuclear apocalypse". And if you watch the news, you’ll notice they always say it might start in one place: Taiwan.

Taiwan is wonderful, and I’ve been there many times. Friendly people, great food, beautiful nature (and people). But it’s also the center of a massive geopolitical conflict. Taiwan is also known as the Republic of China, and it’s where the Nationalists under Chiang Kai-Shek, the losers of the Chinese Civil War, escaped to after Mao Zedong’s Communists conquered China.

China still firmly maintains that Taiwan is part of its territory. But in practice….Taiwan has it’s own government and does its own thing. The last time that China tried to retake the islands was in the 1950s, when they shelled a tiny little unknown island called Kinmen. The Nationalists survived and repelled the attack.

Kinmen sits just 4 miles (6 km) at its closest point from the Chinese mainland. Although it’s controlled by the Taiwanese government, it has a special relationship with the mainland. And it also carries the scars of the battles of the past. This was a place I had wanted to visit for a very long time. And now I finally had my chance--no time to waste.

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