Dongding

alternative Tungting

1. An island of Jinhu, Kinmen County, Taiwan.

   Additionally, the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis from August to September 1958 saw an unsuccessful attempt being made to invade Dongding Island held by the ROC.

   2019, Robert J. Bunker, China's Securing, Shaping, and Exploitation of Strategic Spaces: Gray Zone Response and Counter-shi Strategies, →ISBN, →OCLC, page https://books.google.com/books?id=EWrnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT72

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   The ARATS letter to the SEF said: As informed by mail by the relevant Fujian provincial departments, the Minpuyu No. 1205 (made of wood, with a deadweight of 3 tons, 12 horsepower, and carrying five people) from Jiangkou [translating 江口 (Jiāngkǒu)] Village, Qianting [translating 前亭] Town in Zhangpu [translating 漳浦 (Zhāngpǔ)] County, Fujian Province, came under attack from several rounds of artillery from the Taiwan military in Dongding on 10 June, when it was fishing for clams in the waters south by west of Dongding (approximately 3,000 meters from Dongding).

   1995 July 7 [1995 July 5], “ARATS Denounces Shelling of Fishermen”, in Daily Report: China, number 95-130, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Beijing XINHUA Domestic Service, translation of original in Chinese, →ISSN, →OCLC, PRC Media on Taiwan Affairs, page 88, column 1

   At present, America has committed itself to an "all-round responsibility" policy along our coast. It seems to me that the Americans will only feel comfortable if they take complete responsibility for Jinmen and Mazu, or even for such small islands as Dadan, Erdan, and Dongding [small islands within the Jinmen archipelago]. America has fallen into our noose. Thereby, America's neck is hanging in China's iron noose. Although Taiwan is [for America] another noose, it is a bit farther from [the mainland]. America is now moving its head closer to us, since it wants to take responsibility for Jinmen and other islands. Someday we will kick America, and it cannot run away, because it is tied up by our noose.

   2001 [1958 September], Chen Jian, quoting Mao Zedong, “Beijing and the Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1958”, in Mao's China and the Cold War, University of North Carolina Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 187

   Their plans for a large wedding were interrupted when Chinese guns bombarded Kinmen County, which triggered the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and prompted the army to send him to the front, he said. For a month, Taiwanese and Chinese forces engaged in gunnery duels, aerial skirmishes and one naval action off the coast of Dongding Island (東碇島).

   2019 September 24, Lo Chih, Jonathan Chin, “Octogenarians mark anniversary with ceremony”, in Taipei Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2019, Taiwan News, page 4

   The PLA attempted amphibious operations to seize the main Kinmen Island in 1949, and nearby Tungting (Dongding) Island in 1958, but was repelled by ROC defensive emplacements.

   2023 February, Andrew Chubb, “Taiwan Strait Crises: Island Seizure Contingencies”, in Asia Society, archived from the original on 02 Apr 2023