Taiwan’s election fills tiny Kinmen island with questions and anxiety about future ties with China

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Open this photo in gallery: As tourists look on, Taiwanese soldiers fire a demonstration howitzer at a former military installation on Kinmen, an island a few kilometres from the mainland Chinese coast.Photography by James Griffiths/The Globe and Mail The soldiers crouched as the howitzer fired, its retort deafening the dozen or so tourists gathered at a cave overlooking China’s southern coast. There was a smattering of applause as the performance wrapped up, and the soldiers, in green fatigues and helmets, prepared the decades-old weapon for the next demonstration. This is Kinmen, a tiny, windswept island in the Taiwan Strait, controlled...