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“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...
