Visitors view Xiamen on mainland China from Kinmen, Taiwan.
Photographer: An Rong Xu/Bloomberg
Even China's Closest Supporters in Taiwan Are Turning Wary
On the Taiwanese island of Kinmen, just a few miles off China, residents are losing their admiration for Beijing
Kinmen is close enough to China that the residents of this small group of islands have been able to watch with the naked eye the ascendance of an economic giant next door.
“Have you seen the buildings in Xiamen?” asks Li Wen-liang, Kinmen’s deputy county commissioner as he waves a hand toward the Chinese metropolis sitting across a sliver of water that is at its narrowest just over a mile wide. “They weren’t there a decade ago.”