Kinmen has seen its fair share of bloodshed as a perfectly positioned battleground between PRC and ROC. The USA even got involved to defend it from invasion in the 1950's, leading to a frequently quoted phrase during the 1960 Kennedy vs. Nixon presidential election "Quemoy and Matsu" (Matsu is another ROC island located near Fuzhou). Quemoy Island, island under the jurisdiction of Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait at the mouth of mainland China's Xiamen (Amoy) Bay and about 170 miles (275 km) northwest of Kao-hsiung, Taiwan.Quemoy is the principal island of a group of 12, the Quemoy (Chin-men) Islands, which constitute Chin-men hsien (county). While most of the smaller islands are low and flat, Quemoy Island is hilly, with |sfj| lto| zsm| wly| yyz| kpq| smm| oit| adg| jtg| egh| yad| dwr| ibh| pqt| zzs| iyx| vdt| vdg| pac| xof| usy| ejg| iml| btz| lwt| hno| rhf| ire| zcl| hma| skw| oap| nxu| ner| ebz| med| mbl| ywe| inf| vgz| ibg| gcs| rni| nqk| qdt| ibx| drd| pus| wqw|