Taiwan News & Opinion

Caught between politics and the pandemic, a few kilometres from China, Taiwan’s Kinmen island rethinks its economy

On the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, 63-year-old Wu Tseng-dong – Maestro Wu as he brands himself – is beating swords into ploughshares, as the Bible teaches. Or to be exact, artillery shells into kitchen knives. And until the beginning of last year, mainland Chinese bought them up in tremendous numbers: “There is a particular meaning…

by Alice Herait & William Han 23:30, 5 December 202112:53, 6 December 2021