In troubled Taiwan China waters, a swimming race provides rare hope

The warm weather and sense of friendly competition mask increasingly tense relations across the strait that separates democratic Taiwan from China, which claims the island as its own.

While Wu's workplace now serves as the local branch of Taiwan's central executive, the building still bears the name Fujian Provincial Government—a reminder of the time when Kinmen was part of China's Fujian Province.

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