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	Wuchiu Information
		Wuchiu (Chinese: 烏坵鄉; Pinyin: Wūqiū; Wade-Giles: Wu-ch'iu; Tongyong Pinyin: Wuciou) is a group of islands comprised of two major islands, namely Greater Chiu Islet and Smaller Chiu Islet, in the Taiwan Strait.
		Administratively the Wuchiu Township is part of Kinmen County of the Fukien Province of the Republic of China.
		Satellite image of the islands of Wuchiu and Hsiaochiu by Google Maps
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Wuchiu (152 words)

	Wuchiu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wuchiu (Chinese: 烏坵鄉; Pinyin: Wūqiū; Wade-Giles: Wu-ch'iu; Tongyong Pinyin: Wuciou) is a group of islands comprised of two major islands, namely Greater Chiu Islet and Smaller Chiu Islet, in the Taiwan Strait.
		Administratively the Wuchiu Township is part of Kinmen County of the Fukien Province of the Republic of China.
		Satellite image of the islands of Wuchiu and Hsiaochiu by Google Maps
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wuchiu (168 words)

	Political status of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Currently, Taiwan, Kinmen (Quemoy), Wuchiu (Wuciou) and Matsu off the coast of mainland Fukien, and Taiping (Itu Aba) and Pratas in the South China Sea effectively make up the entire state known as the Republic of China.
		The ROC government has in the past considered itself to be the sole legitimate government over Taiwan, as well as its former territories on the continent that include mainland China, Outer Mongolia and Tannu Uriankhai (part of which is present day Tuva).
		(Quemoy, Wuchiu and Matsu are claimed by the PRC as part of its Fujian Province, and the South China Sea Islands part of its Guangdong and Hainan provinces.)
	www.airandspace.org /encyclopedia/Political_status_of_Taiwan (4965 words)

	Political status of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Currently, Taiwan; Kinmen (Quemoy), Wuchiu (Wuciou), Matsu, and some other islands off the coast of mainland Fukien; as well as Taiping (Itu Aba) and Pratas in the South China Sea effectively make up the entire state known as the Republic of China (ROC).
		Japan surrendered it in 1945 at the end of World War II after 50 years of colonial rule, and it became a province of the Republic of China (ROC).
		Quemoy, Matsu and Wuchiu on the coast of Fukien, and Taiping and Pratas in the South China Sea, are part of the ROC's present territory, but were not ceded to Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Political_status_of_Taiwan (5958 words)

	Taipei Times - archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Wuchiu Islands are known for their strategic position -- and have been the target of threats from China in the past.
		Wuchiu, though not the closest outpost to China, has been threatened several times over the past few years with a potential attack by the Chinese troops.
		Intelligence sources said China planned to invade Wuchiu to punish Lee for the statements he made, but that plan and other relevant military actions were dropped after Taiwan was hit by the devastating 921 earthquake last year, not long after "state-to-state" was first mentioned.
	www.taipeitimes.com /news/2000/05/17/story/0000036339 (661 words)

	WUCHIU FORCES HAVE NOT INCREASED COMBAT READINESS SAYS COMMANDER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wuchiu, which is comprised of the two major islands of Tahchiu and Hsiaochiu, is the nearest ROC post to the Chinese mainland.
		Wuchiu was originally part of the Meizhou Township of Fujian Province's Putien County.
		Although the incoming ROC government has not yet decided whether all the troops on Wuchiu should be relocated and the island instead taken over by the newly-established Coast Guard Administration as the overall situation has changed, some coast guard forces have been moved into Wuchiu in recent weeks.
	www.fas.org /news/taiwan/2000/e-05-17-00-11.htm (307 words)

	Hui-Yun Chung page,Orchid Island
		Wuchiu, Kinman and Maysu serves as three frontline military bases of Taiwan.
		Wuchiu is comprised of two major islands of Tahchiu and Hsiaochiu.
		The total land of Wuchiu is 1.22 square kilometers with a population of 387.
	www.american.edu /ted/ice/orchid-waste.htm (3061 words)

	Political factors influencing nuclear-waste dump plan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hsiao Chiu-yu is part of Wuchiu - originally part of Fujian province's Putien County, but now administered by Kinmen County Government.
		China is thought likely to object to the development of Wuchiu because it lies only 20 nautical miles from PRC-controlled Meizhou Island.
		Previously, members of the project's review committee who were opposed to atomic energy had stopped the environmental assessment from going forward by citing Wuchiu's proximity to the mainland and the likelihood that China would vigorously oppose development.
	www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw /20010719/20010719s2.html (357 words)

	:::► Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net ◄::: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Some islands of other counties, such as Wuchiu Wuciou, were transferred to the jurisdiction of Kinmen County by the ROC government following its Chinese Civil War retreat to Taiwan.
		Lieyu Township encompasses the entire Lesser Quemoy Island, and is closest to Xiamen.
		Wuchiu Wuciou Township is comprised of Greater Ciou Islet (大坵) and Lesser Ciou Islet (小坵).
	www.mauspfeil.net /Kinmen.html (589 words)

	Taiwan Travel Guides, Taiwan Hotel - Discount-Taiwan-Hotels.Biz
		Mount Yushan is, at 3952m (12,963ft), the highest peak in North-East Asia outside of Tibet.
		The small islands of Penghu, Lanyu, Green, Liuchiu, Kinmen, Matsu and Wuchiu are controlled by Taiwan.
		The island's high mountain forests are predominantly cyprus, although camphor used to grow in abundance.
	www.discount-taiwan-hotels.biz /travel_guides.php?c=11 (271 words)

	Taiwan
		Mount Yushan is, at 3952m (12,963ft), the highest peak in North-East Asia outside of Tibet.
		The small islands of Penghu, Lanyu, Green, Liuchiu, Kinmen, Matsu and Wuchiu are controlled by Taiwan.
		The island's high mountain forests are predominantly cyprus, although camphor used to grow in abundance.
	www.eslsite.com /country_guide/Taiwan/Taiwan_Environment.html (271 words)

	New AEC head favors domestic waste storage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hu also said that he is inclined to favor disposing of nuclear waste within the ROC, perhaps on the islet of Wuchiu (part of the Kinmen archipelago), in order to avoid creating international controversies and hurting Taiwan's reputation abroad.
		The new AEC head also stated that the issue of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant should be looked at from the perspectives of both policy and technology.
		Hu noted that some have criticized the AEC in the past for acting as both "player and referee," a reference to the fact that in addition to overseeing nuclear safety, the AEC is also engaged in research work on nuclear energy.
	www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw /20010306/20010306p4.html (379 words)

	hawaii-cruise.info Political status of Taiwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cuɾɾently, Taiwan; Quemoy (Quemoy), Wuchiu (Wuciou), Matsu Islands, and some otheɾ islands off the coast of mainland Fujian ; as well as Taiping (island) (Itu Aba) and Pɾatas in the South China Sea effectively make up the entiɾe state known as the Republic of China (ROC).
		Quemoy, Matsu Islands and Wuchiu on the coast of Fujian, and Taiping (island) and Pɾatas in the South China Sea, aɾe paɾt of the ROC's pɾesent teɾɾitoɾy, but weɾe not ceded to Japan.
		(The PRC claims Quemoy, Wuchiu and Matsu Islands as paɾt of its Fujian, and the South China Sea Islands paɾt of its Guangdong and Hainan pɾovinces.)
	www.hawaii-cruise.info /en/Political+status+of+Taiwan (5795 words)

	China May Increase Military Pressure Against Taiwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A tiny island called Wuchiu, held by Taiwan, is only about 10 miles away, and officials and analysts in Taiwan concede that it would be a relatively simple affair, in military terms, for Chinese troops to seize the island.
		One defense official in Taiwan said in an interview Monday that it is conceivable China will attack a small island such as Wuchiu, seize it, and then move back away from it, just to send a signal to Taiwan of its military capabilities.
		He pointed out that this scenario would be similar to the one China followed in early 1979, when it attacked Vietnam and then, after suffering significant casualties, retreated from the territory it had taken.
	www-tech.mit.edu /Issue/V116/N13/china.13w.html (762 words)

	Geography of Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Taiwan island is separated from mainland China by the Taiwan Strait and borders the South China Sea and Philippine Sea to the south, the East China Sea in the north, and the Pacific Ocean in the west.
		(The islands of Kinmen, Matsu, Wuchiu, etc. across the Taiwan Strait, and Pratas and Taiping in the South China Sea, are also administered by the ROC.)
		Taiwan's area is 35,980 km² of which 32,260 km² is land and 3,720 km² is territorial water claims, making it slightly smaller than the combined area of Maryland and Delaware.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geography_of_Taiwan (740 words)

	China Reform Monitor No. 310, June 1, 2000
		The men claimed to be fishermen, but they carried night-vision equipment and Taiwanese maps instead of fishing equipment.
		The film seized showed shots of military facilities and sentries deployed on the strategic outlying islands of Penghu and Wuchiu.
		On May 25 the PLA began a week-long live-fire artillery exercise near outlying Taiwanese islands, including Wuchiu.
	www.afpc.org /crm/crm310.htm (494 words)

	Taipower uncertain about waste site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, officials at Taipower's Nuclear Backend Management Department told the Taipei Times on Thursday that the company's proposal to build a waste repository in Wuchiu was still in the works.
		Furthermore, in May, the Atomic Energy Council said it would not back Taipower's initiative to build a final repository for low-level radioactive waste in Wuchiu because difficulties pertaining to logistics and supervision made the site impractical.
		Reportedly, the idea that the company is reviewing alternatives could be attributed to the pressure from the Cabinet, which formed a special committee to handle the relocation of radioactive waste stored on Lanyu (Orchid Island).
	www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw /20021004/20021004s2.html (508 words)

	Cover Story A President in Focus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The most common type of photos in the albums are the shots of Chiang's visits to places all over Taiwan, from the remotest mountain villages and coastal areas to the towns and cities.
		There are also many of trips to the outlying islands of Kinmen, Matsu, the Pescadores and Tungyin, and even to Wuchiu and the Pratas Islands.
		Where he could not go by air he went by sea, transferring from large to small vessels and then to smaller ones still to get ashore, even where there was no jetty to tie up to.
	home.sina.com /sinorama/0298/english/3_14.html (252 words)

	NewspaperARCHIVE.com - Search old newspapers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wuchiu, located about midway between Quemoy in the south and Tachen to the north, is a stepping 1 of Formosa.
		Wuchiu, an S-shaped island on the 25th parallel only 150' miles from Taipei, was not viewed as of vital strategic importance to the defense of the Communists were planning to use it for a leap-frog campaign, these observers said.
		First reports told oC bitter hand- to-hand fighting on Wuchiu, which was defended by a garrison esti- mated at battalion strength, and many Communist casualties.
	www.newspaperarchive.com /newspapers2/na0021/1757482/10959174.html (3891 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is located 150km (95 miles) off mainland China and is the largest part of the Republic of China.
		The main island is Taiwan Island, which comprises about 98 percent of the current jurisdiction of the Republic of China; the other 2 percent are the smaller islands of Lanyu, and the Pescadores, along with the tiny islets of Green Island, Liuchiu, and Wuchiu.
		Taiwan island is separated from the mainland China by the Taiwan Strait and borders the South China Sea and Philippine Sea to the south, the East China Sea in the north, and the Pacific Ocean in the west.
	www.personal.psu.edu /yxh156/Taiwan/geography2.htm (549 words)

	China Reform Monitor No. 310, June 1, 2000
		The men claimed to be fishermen, but they carried night-vision equipment and Taiwanese maps instead of fishing equipment.
		The film seized showed shots of military facilities and sentries deployed on the strategic outlying islands of Penghu and Wuchiu.
		On May 25 the PLA began a week-long live-fire artillery exercise near outlying Taiwanese islands, including Wuchiu.
	afpc.org /crm/crm310.htm (494 words)

	urg:::Int'l NWaste Anyone : Yucca Mtn, Solomons, Taiwan, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, reports in the Taiwanese Central News Agency on Saturday quoted the Taiwanese Economic Affairs Minister Lin Yi-Fu saying Solomon Islands, Russia, mainland China, North Korea and Wuchiu are among possible options to dump 97-thousand barrels of low radiation nuclear waste from Orchid Island in Taiwan.
		Lin said his ministry has given relevant information and reports about Wuchiu to the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration, which is expected to work out an environmental assessment on this location.
		Taipower Chairman W.Y. Lin told CNA that even if the environmental agency can release the assessment by the end of this year, it may take at least 10 years to complete construction of the necessary facilities on Wuchiu.
	lists.myspinach.org /pipermail/urg/2002-May/000649.html (1780 words)

	Wuchiu: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wuchiu (or Wuciou in Tongyong Pinyin Tongyong Pinyin quick summary:
		Administratively the Wuchiu Township is part of Kinmen County Quemoy quick summary:
		List of islands of the Republic of China[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link]
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wu/wuchiu.htm (497 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The paper quoted a resident of nearby Wuchiu Island as saying that Chinese fishermen have contacted islanders about the possibility of taking joint action against the dump.
		Juan Chin-sheng, a secretary at the Wuchiu township government, declined to comment on the report, but said local residents remained firm in their opposition to the dump.
		In Putian, a spokesman for the county government said he was unaware of the planned dump or any possible joint action against it, but he added that Putian would oppose the dump should Taiwan decide to build it.
	www.nautilus.org /archives/pub/ftp/napsnet/daily_reports/1998/10-98--October/OCT07.txt (1546 words)

	Asian Economic News: Taipower denies China opposes nuclear storage site
		The Liberty Times reported Wednesday China fears Taiwan's military could use the harbor facilities that would have to be built on Hsiao Wuchiu to accommodate large cargo ships bringing low-level radioactive waste from Taiwan proper.
		China's military conveyed to Taipower through unofficial channels it would consider the presence of a major quay a ''military provocation,'' sparking Taipower to temporarily halt the project, the newspaper said.
		Hsiao Wuchiu is a small island belonging to the Taiwan-controlled Matsu Islands, which are located in the northern Taiwan Strait about 12 kilometers off the mainland coast.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDP/is_1999_March_29/ai_54388224 (375 words)

	AA TRavel Wings Destination Explorer
		The 78 islands that make up Taiwan lie in the Pacific Ocean about 160 km offshore from the south- eastern coast of the Chinese mainland, including Penghu (formerly the Pescadores), Liuchiu, Green, Wuchiu etc are part of Taiwan.
		The main island of Taiwan is located approximately between Korea and Japan to the north and Hong Kong and the Philippines to the south.
		Recently, however, the country seems to have woken to the fact that its environment is in a bad shape; pretty strict environmental laws have been enforced, and 67 reserves (including 6 national parks) have been created.
	www.travelwings.org /de/taiwanhabitat.htm (231 words)

	European Nuclear Body Backs Lithuania Building New Reactor
		"Wuchiu is way too close to the mainland, and we need to consider present ties with (Beijing)," AEC vice chairman Chiou Syh-tsong, told AFP.
		Wuchiu was favored by the state-run Taiwan Power Company (Taipower) for the construction of a permanent storage ground for low-radiation nuclear waste.
		Chiou's remarks were a surprise to Taipower, which has submitted an environmental protection impact report to the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) for approval.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/nuclear-civil-02zd.html (1974 words)

	Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Australia
		There have been proposals to ship the hazardous substance to one of Taiwan's scarcely populated islets for storage.
		Although Taipower officials maintain that they have not ruled out any possibilities at home and abroad, they admitted that an environmental impact assessment is currently underway on Hsiaochiu, an islet of Wuchiu, which lies about 70 nautical miles off Kinmen Island in the Taiwan Strait.
		Taipower stressed that it is still too early to arrive at any decision, as the company still needs to consult Wuchiu's approximately four dozen residents.
	www.teco.org.au /whatnew/May/government.htm (1167 words)

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