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AFRET CMS wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 5:12 pm
MattKnowles wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 10:48 pm Missed Taiwan and said Philippines. I'm curious who got Taiwan.
Got it from dinner table discussions in the '50s when my parents were very worried about international crises. We had the Cold War going on, neighbors building fallout shelters in their back yards, and then China started shelling Quemoy and Matsu from the mainland and wound up in a sea battle with the Nationalists on Taiwan. For a while it looked like it could have been a hot war with both USSR and PRC. Scary time to be a six-year-old whose parents closely followed international events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ta ... ait_Crisis

This next one is an interesting State Department article, especially the last paragraph -- it says PRC and ROC reached an agreement where they would take turns launching an artillery attack on each other on alternate days. And then did it for twenty years.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/19 ... ait-crises

I still remember photos from a National Geographic article about the shelling.
Good info. I knew some of that but not all of it.

The Wikipedia article points out that the communist forces had to ditch Dongding island.
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MattKnowles wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 5:40 pm
AFRET CMS wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 5:12 pm
MattKnowles wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 10:48 pm Missed Taiwan and said Philippines. I'm curious who got Taiwan.
Got it from dinner table discussions in the '50s when my parents were very worried about international crises. We had the Cold War going on, neighbors building fallout shelters in their back yards, and then China started shelling Quemoy and Matsu from the mainland and wound up in a sea battle with the Nationalists on Taiwan. For a while it looked like it could have been a hot war with both USSR and PRC. Scary time to be a six-year-old whose parents closely followed international events.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ta ... ait_Crisis
The Wikipedia article points out that the communist forces had to ditch Dongding island.
Well stated, sir. :)
Another Philippines response here.
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opusthepenguin wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 9:03 pm In the early 70s in Tulsa we had a far more inappropriate name that I refuse to divulge.
Same timeframe, about 120 miles SSW from Tulsa…same for me. :oops:
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AFRET CMS wrote: Wed May 05, 2021 5:12 pm
MattKnowles wrote: Tue May 04, 2021 10:48 pm Missed Taiwan and said Philippines. I'm curious who got Taiwan.
Got it from dinner table discussions in the '50s when my parents were very worried about international crises. We had the Cold War going on, neighbors building fallout shelters in their back yards, and then China started shelling Quemoy and Matsu from the mainland and wound up in a sea battle with the Nationalists on Taiwan. For a while it looked like it could have been a hot war with both USSR and PRC. Scary time to be a six-year-old whose parents closely followed international events.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Ta ... ait_Crisis

This next one is an interesting State Department article, especially the last paragraph -- it says PRC and ROC reached an agreement where they would take turns launching an artillery attack on each other on alternate days. And then did it for twenty years.

https://history.state.gov/milestones/19 ... ait-crises

I still remember photos from a National Geographic article about the shelling.
More on the crisis in this weekend's New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/p ... china.html
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