The small islands that could be the first target in a clash between China, Taiwan, and the US

Everything old is new again, and we walk in footprints that have already been made. In the early stages of the Cold War, the United States and Chinanearly came to blows over a pair of small islands off of China's coast. In 1955 and again in 1958, China and the United States came dangerously close to active combat over control of Quemoy and Matsu, two small islands just off the coast of the