CCP Eyes Taiwan Island 4 Miles From Mainland China

Taiwan’s outlying islands are the most at risk of CCP aggression, but experts are divided on how to defend them.

Taiwan's remote Shihyu islet is seen behind the anti-landing spikes on Taiwan's frontline island of Little Kinmen, on Dec. 5, 2023. Sam Yeh/AFP via Getty Images

Residents of Taiwan’s Kinmen Islands can see the towers of China’s Xiamen even on a cloudy day.

It was in Kinmen, just 4 miles from mainland China, that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) failed to wipe out its opposition before it fled to Taiwan during the closing phases of a brutal civil war 75 years ago.