Emergency workers on a Taiwan-controlled island next to China's coast practiced responding to a simulated Chinese attack on Thursday, a little more than a week after Beijing staged war games around the sensitive Taiwan Strait.
NANGAN, Taiwan, April 20 - Emergency workers on a Taiwan-controlled island next to China's coast practiced responding to a simulated Chinese attack on Thursday, a little more than a week after Beijing stagedThe Matsu Islands, close to China's Fuzhou city, have been controlled by the government in Taipei since defeated Republic of China forces fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's communists.
But its closeness to the Chinese coast means Taiwan's government is well aware of the danger Matsu would face should war break out, as Beijing presses Taiwan to accept its sovereignty claims. Ambulances and fire engines raced around Nangan's power station, the site of the exercises, spraying water on fires and evacuating the wounded.
"In time of war, the army will be in charge of fighting, while we are in charge of support and logistics," he said.
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