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Commanders of the PRC People's Liberation Army (PLA) believed that Quemoy (Kinmen) and Matsu had to be taken before a final assault on Taiwan. The PLA planned to attack Kinmen from nearby Aotou (澳頭) (in Xindian, Xiamen), Dadeng (Tateng) and Lianhe (Lienho) (蓮河) (then part of Nan'an County, now also in Xindian) [8] [9] by launching a ...
In 2019 the MoD commenced construction on two new bases on Kinmen and Penghu to support rapid deployments by the 101st. [4] In 2020 the US Army 1st Special Forces Group (Airborne) released a video which showed themselves training with the 101st Amphibious Reconnaissance Battalion in Taiwan. [1]
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also known as the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). ). The PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China in an attempt to take them from the Chinese Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), and to probe ...
Taiwan has controlled Kinmen, and the Matsu islands to the north, since the defeated Republic of China government fled to Taipei in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's communists.
In 2020, the US Army's 1st Special Forces Group, which is responsible for the Indo-Pacific area of operations, released a short video on social media showing Green Berets training with the Sea ...
The drills, which began at 7.45am local time, are being conducted in the Taiwan Strait, to the north, south and east of Taiwan, as well as areas around the Taiwan-controlled islands of Kinmen ...
ROC forces successfully defended the island and prevented an attack on Taiwan. At the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, retired Admiral Charles M. Cooke Jr., advisor to President Chiang Kai-shek, opposed withdrawing ROC forces from Quemoy (Kinmen). [28]
Taiwan says China has been using "grey zone" tactics that stop short of actual combat to test and pressure Taiwanese forces, including regular coast guard patrols near the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen ...