Mounds of sand sit beneath a row of pile drivers on Dadeng Island, where the Chinese city of Xiamen is building a new airport on reclaimed land.

Syril Hung sighs, awe-struck by this scene. The retired editor is looking through a pair of binoculars from the Mashan Observation Station on Kinmen, a nearby island that belongs to Taiwan. On a clear day like this, we can see sand-dredging barges…

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Last stop: Outgoing President Ma Ying-jeou made a pitstop visit to Kinmen island on January 2 to canvass for his party—the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT)—and its local candidate running in the legislative elections concurrent to the presidential vote on Saturday.

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