Talk:Matsu
Travel limitations?
[edit]Some years back, a Taiwan friend living in Fuzhou told me that, even though there was a boat to Matsu, it was banned to foreigners and even for him it was easier to travel via Hong Kong than to deal with the heavy security on militarily sensitive Matsu. Some of that has changed by now, but how much?
More recently, a South African friend tried to take the Mawei-Matsu boat, but was stopped before boarding. He was told there's a list of 15 countries allowed on the route, and SA is not on it. Can we get that list? I know at least Americans, Kiwis and Brits are allowed on the Xiamen-Jinmen boat, but don't know who else, or if the two routes might have different rules. (WT-en) Pashley 01:12, 27 March 2011 (EDT)
Political status of Matsu
[edit]Since someone made an edit on this, I thought I'd clarify this. The ROC on paper claims all of China as its territory, including all of Fujian province, and considers the PRC to be an illegitimate government, so Matsu is still part of Fujian province in the ROC constitution. So from the ROC perspective, most of Fujian is illegally occupied by an illegitimate government, while Matsu and Kinmen are the only parts of Fujian that are governed by the legitimate government of China. That is why many locals don't identify as Taiwanese; before the Chinese Civil War, it was part of Fujian province, and Taiwan was (and still is on paper) considered to be another province. The dog2 (talk) 20:36, 29 November 2022 (UTC)