The Taiwan Crisis You Are Missing: A Chinese Invasion of Quemoy and Matsu
In the early stages of the Cold War, the United States and China nearly came to blows over a pair of small islands off China’s coast. In 1955 and again in 1958, China and the United States came dangerously close to active combat over control of Quemoy and Matsu, two small islands just off the coast of the mainland PRC.
Source: nationalinterest.org
