TAIPEI - Taiwan President Lai Ching-te will on Friday make his first visit since taking office in May to the sensitive Kinmen islands that sit next to the Chinese coast and have been the scene of stepped up tensions between Taipei and Beijing.
Taiwan President Lai Ching-te will on Friday make his first visit since taking office in May to the sensitive Kinmen islands.
Lai's office said on Thursday that he would travel to Kinmen on Friday for events marking the 66th anniversary of a key military clash with Chinese forces, better known internationally as the start of the second Taiwan Strait crisis. Kinmen faces the Chinese cities of Xiamen and Quanzhou and at its closest is less than two km away from Chinese-controlled territory.In August of that year, Chinese forces began more than a month of bombardment of Kinmen, along with Matsu, including naval and air battles, seeking to force them into submission.
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