Taiwan’s frontline islanders unfazed by beat of China war drum


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Yang Yin-shih, 92, says recent Chinese war games can't compare with the 1958 bombardment of the Taiwan-ruled Kinmen Islands where he lives - Copyright AFP Sam Yeh Amber WANG Not far from the rusted-out tanks and anti-landing spikes that litter the beaches of the Taiwanese island where he lives, 92-year-old veteran Yang Yin-shih reads his newspaper in the shadow of the enemy that regularly adorns its pages. Several miles from Yang’s home on the tiny Kinmen Islands is the Chinese mainland, where he can see for himself the military might that threatens his homeland. Beijing last week staged unprecedented war...