JINCHENG TOWNSHIP, TAIWAN – Peggy Lee and her high school classmate, Lin Chiao-yin, screamed in pleasure this week on a shaded cliff along a sun-soaked beach on the Taiwanese island of Kinmen as they practiced street dancing and chatted about the hottest tunes. Sixteen year old Lin was taking a break from tending to her father’s beachside café.
An expired military tank sat right below them on the beach, and 15 kilometers beyond that loomed the easily visible high-rise skyline of Xiamen, a major city in southeastern China. The café operates on the roof of a camouflage-painted army fortress that once scanned the sea for Chinese artillery, but Lee and Lin weren’t scared.
“We find it pretty over there, but there’s actually no…