Wuchiu

He departed with the Naniwa and the Hashidate²⁰ for a two day cruise, skirting the Wuchiu and Hui Ch’uan Islands and the shore of Fukien Province.

1936, Edwin A. Falk, Togo and the Rise of Japanese Sea Power, Longmans, Green and Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 229

The offshore island defense commands included those for Quemoy, Matsu, and the Pescadores and the Wu-ch'iu and Tung-yin island groups.

[1967 November 30, “The Armed Forces”, in Area Handbook for the Republic of China, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published 1969, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 409

Knowland expressed grave fears that the administration was about to be duped by the “Trojan Horse of co-existence” being advanced by the Soviet Union. Then he called upon the Congress to investigate current American foreign and defense policy. Days later, after Communist China announced its imprisonment of thirteen Americans captured during the Korean War and fired on the Nationalist-held island of Wuchiu, Knowland urged an immediate blockade of Red China. When Knowland subsequently sided with Senator McCarthy, pundits believed that he had gone over to the Republican Right, severing all connections with the Eisenhower administration.²⁹

1983, David W. Reinhard, The Republican Right Since 1945, Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 126

Between Kinmen and Matsu - and also just a stone’s throw from the Chinese mainland - is a third island called Wuchiu. The island is so small and insignificant that the Communists didn’t even bother shelling it.[...]For 40 years, Kinmen, Matsu and Wuchiu even had their own currency to prevent capital flight, but these days standard NT$ are acceptable.

1994 July, Robert Storey, Taiwan - A Travel Survival Kit, 3rd edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 261–262

Another plan to build an undersea repository off the Wuchiu islands in the Taiwan Strait has set off local protests. China also reportedly objected to shipping facilities that could have military uses so close to its coast.

2000 March 14, Erik Eckholm, “China and Taiwan Pursue Secret Nuclear Waste Deal”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2011, World