On the frontline between China and Taiwan in the Kinmen Islands

"Kinmen has a history of fighting with the Chinese military but now Kinmen is an island which wants to engage with China the most. We are close to China geographically but also economically," Chen Yu-jen, a local legislator representing the main opposition party the Kuomintang (KMT), told AFR Weekend. Chen Yu-jen, a KMT legislator on Taiwan's Kinmen Island. "My grandfather and father's generation suffered and fought before, but now they would like to be friends with China." Chen, who says her family has lived on Kinmen for 28 generations and is serving her sixth term in Taiwan's parliament, supports closer…