Despite Taiwan's zero interest in the Xiamen-Kinmen Bridge linking the Mainland's Xiamen with Taiwan's Kinmen, the PRC went ahead to build it. The construction of the Xiamen section is in full swing . This bridge can be one of many potential triggers for the PRC to take Kinmen, which TW has no real interest in defending. Trump's way of dealing with Moscow thugs may greatly encourage the PRC to take the Kinmen and Matsu Islands, both of which are within the range of the PRC's conventional artillery. If Witkoff thinks it is understandable for Moscow to send troops to Ukraine to "protect Russian-speaking people" (BTW, most older Ukrainians speak Russian), it will be even more understandable to him for the PRC to send troops to defend Hokkien-speaking people. Kinmen was never a part of Formosa (the main island of Taiwan) until Chiang was determined to hold it, deploying 100k troops to the island with US support. The ROC (Taiwan) symbolically has a few thousan...

 ’Tis the day again - June 4. I thought the CCP's days were numbered on the morning of 36 years ago, after spending a night witnessing unthinkable scenes at Peace Gate (Hepingmen), less than 1 km from Tiananmen. The collapse of the USSR firmed my belief. Why was I so wrong? I was off because of the only reason beyond my wildest imagination - the free world, including the US, embraced the CCP, supported it, even started to follow its example in some sense at its own high cost. Like many students of the pro-democracy movement who managed to escape to the free world after the massacre, my original plan was to return to China to participate in the first democratic election in Mainland China since WWII after the end of the CCP regime in a few years, one way or another. I held my Chinese passport for that day for a VERY long time before naturalizing me as a US citizen. I have a lot of companies in this over-optimism. Gordon Chang gave the CCP 5 years in his famous 2021 book, The Coming C...