Taiwan’s authorities may have limited options in enforcing rules, with tougher action potentially escalating into unintended ...
Mainland China’s coastguard said units based in Fujian, the province nearest Taiwan, had carried out a “regular law ...
Travellers from the southeastern province of Fujian would be allowed to reach the nearby outlying Taiwan-controlled islets of Penghu, Matsu and Quemoy, which is also known as Kinmen, Taiwanese ...
Although the positions of Mr. Nixon and Mr. Kennedy over Quemoy and Matsu have narrowed in the last few days, the issue provides an example of the dangers inherent in a presidential campaign.
The drills are scheduled to take place over about 20 days between April 2 and April 30. Those include parts of Quemoy, and its tiny outlying islets of Houyu, Fuyun, Fuxing, Shiyu, Muyu and Lieyu ...
Quemoy and Matsu, within the range of artillery from the mainland, could easily ignite a general conflagration. Here the dilemma is clear: in a sudden crisis, the U.S.--almost certainly without ...
He and the nation emerged from several potential international crises -- Quemoy and Matsu in 1955, Formosa in 1958, Berlin in 1959 -- without so much as losing "a soldier or a foot of ground." ...
Small-scale hostilities across the Strait continued throughout the 1950s over a string of islands (Quemoy (Kinmen) and Matsu) off the coast of China, but the situation eventually settled into one of ...
Stomping into the conference room in his black coat and jodhpurs, he announced his own plan: withdrawal of the U.S. Seventh Fleet, abandonment of Quemoy and Matsu, a trusteeship for Formosa either ...
The afternoon before he flew toEurope, President Eisenhower thoughtfully drew a State Departmentpolicy paper out of the ”urgent study” pile on his desk. Its contents:a report on the Communist ...