What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!
The bunker can accommodate up to 10 people comfortably, though it is chilly and damp.
Beijing views Taiwan as a breakaway province, and has never ruled out the use of force to reunify with it. Kinmen, as well as the Matsu archipelago further up north, are among the islands that remained in the hands of Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang government that fled to Taiwan from mainland China after its defeat in the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
Today, Kinmen is quiet and calm, and has turned into a weekend tourist destination for those with an appetite for war history. Experts have long speculated that Kinmen and Matsu would be the first to fall in the event of a Chinese invasion. She recalls the horror of seeing bullet holes puncturing the walls of her village house as a child. But today, she is hoping for the return of the big-spending Chinese tourists who used to visit Kinmen in droves via a 30-minute ferry ride from Xiamen.
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