Taiwan stations troops on Kinmen, which at some points is just over a mile from Chinese shores. In the late 1950s it was at the center of clashes, including a failed amphibious invasion by China’s People’s Liberation Army, with intermittent shelling occurring until 1979. China’s coast guard on Friday revealed it had entered restricted waters around an outlying Taiwanese island county in the Taiwan Strait, just off China’s Fujian Province. Taiwan has empowered its coast guard to search and seize foreign-flagged vessels that enter prohibited waters or that remain in restricted waters after being issued two warnings to leave. Is there a possibility of Escalation ?
