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US Military Advisors Deployed to Taiwan-Controlled Kinmen Islands on China's Coast (news.antiwar.com)
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[–] naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Kinmen is 10km from Xiamen on the Chinese mainland and 187km from Taiwan.

[–] stmcld@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Classic US, once again "not escalating" tensions.

[–] ARk@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago

No no, they are just there for a special field trip with their kids. China just happened to be nearby

[–] narp@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

What's your implication? That this island which belongs to Taiwan should be controlled by mainland China because it's closer to it?

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml -1 points 7 months ago

No, you see, its actually China that puts their country too close to US millitary advisors. They should move China away or esse they are clearly escalating