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New map, Xiamen. Download config and grayscale below.
Located on the southeast coast of China, Xiamen (Mansion Gate) is a major port city. Located across a narrow body of water within sight of the city is the heavily fortified Taiwanese island of Kinmen (Gold Gate). This split was the result of a civil war that ended with Communists victorious but short on naval capabilities.
During the 1950s, an invasion of Kinmen from Xiamen was fought and repelled, and subsequently there were decades-long artillery duels and occassional air battles. The vast number of shells fired at Kinmen from Xiamen led to a development of a local metalworking industry, famous for its cooking knives.
With warming international relations in the last few years, the Taiwan and China governments initiated the "Small Three Links" as a test for subsequent direct economic links. The two islands are now connected by boat, with a brisk trade in goods flowing through Xiamen and Kinmen between China and Taiwan.
New map, Xiamen. Download config and grayscale below.
Located on the southeast coast of China, Xiamen (Mansion Gate) is a major port city. Located across a narrow body of water within sight of the city is the heavily fortified Taiwanese island of Kinmen (Gold Gate). This split was the result of a civil war that ended with Communists victorious but short on naval capabilities.
During the 1950s, an invasion of Kinmen from Xiamen was fought and repelled, and subsequently there were decades-long artillery duels and occassional air battles. The vast number of shells fired at Kinmen from Xiamen led to a development of a local metalworking industry, famous for its cooking knives.
With warming international relations in the last few years, the Taiwan and China governments initiated the "Small Three Links" as a test for subsequent direct economic links. The two islands are now connected by boat, with a brisk trade in goods flowing through Xiamen and Kinmen between China and Taiwan.
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