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KINMEN, Taiwan – Taiwanese must “unite as one” against the threat from China, President Lai Ching-te said Friday, as the island marked the 66th anniversary of a deadly Chinese artillery attack.
The anniversary of the assault on the Kinmen islands, known as the “823 bombardment”, comes as China has ramped up military and political pressure on Taiwan in recent years.Lai, who took office in May, laid a wreath to commemorate the bombardment’s victims at a cemetery during his first trip to Kinmen as president.
China’s People’s Liberation Army fired 470,000 shells at Kinmen and nearby islets in 1958, killing 618 servicemen and civilians in an attack that lasted 44 days. “If we want to resist the threat from China in the future, we must unite as one… We have only one goal — defend national sovereignty and safeguard democracy”.
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