Wuqiu

• (from Wade–Giles) Wuchiu, Wu-ch'iu
• (Tongyong Pinyin) Wuciou

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 烏坵 (Wūqiū).

Wuqiu

1. A rural township of Kinmen, Taiwan
   • 2014, Steven Crook, Taiwan (Bradt Travel Guides)‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 309:

     Wuqiu (population: 642) lies midway between Kinmen and Matsu, 9km from the nearest PRC-held territory. Save for the ROC servicemen posted there, very few outsiders have been able to visit Wuqiu and obtaining permission to go there is practically impossible.

   • 2021 April 1, Keoni Everington, “Chinese man 'yearning for Taiwan's democracy and freedom' lands in Kinmen”, in Taiwan News‎, archived from the original on 1 April 2021:

     The man was identified as a 37-year-old Chinese national surnamed Li (李), who was a resident of Meizhou Island in China's Fujian Province, which is only 20 nautical miles (37 km) from Wuqiu Township and 72 nautical miles from Kinmen, reported UDN. The primitive craft was found to have a steel bar skeleton that surrounded a styrofoam core with a wooden deck and was powered by an outboard motor.
     During questioning, Li said that he constructed the dinghy and made the treacherous journey because he "yearned for Taiwan's democracy and freedom," reported ETtoday. However, the CGA emphasized that his actions were illegal and were a breach of epidemic prevention efforts.

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2. An island group making up Wuqiu, Kinmen, Taiwan, originally part of Putien (Putian)
   • 2001, Elizabeth Economy, “The Greening of East Asia: The Quest to Tackle Environmental Dilemmas”, in Julian Weiss, editor, Tigers' Roar: Asia's Recovery and its Impact‎, East Gate Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 180:

     In January 1997, Taiwan rejected South Korean demands that it not ship its nuclear waste to North Korea for treatment and storage. The PRC intervened to extract maximum political capital from the dispute, offering to take the Taiwanese nuclear waste on condition that the island be considered an “indivisible part of China.” One year later, however, Taiwan attempted to capitalize on this assertion of unity by proposing that it store its nuclear waste on Wuqiu, an islet off Fujian province on China’s coast. Environmental activists in Wuqiu, Taiwan, and Fujian all protested the deal, forcing the Taiwan Power Company to halt the project.

   • 2013, Rongxing Guo, Regional China: A Business and Economic Handbook‎, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 44:

     The Wuchiu (Wuqiu) Islands are nominally administered in the PRC by the Xiuyu District of the Putian prefecture, but are in reality controlled by the Republic of China, which administers Wuchiu (Wuqiu) as part of Quemoy (Jinmen) County.

   • 2015, Language, Politics and Identity in Taiwan: Naming China‎, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:

     On one offshore island Wuciou (also Wuqiu), the song of the only elementary school had these lyrics:
     We are the little friends of the frontier, good students of Wuciou elementary school. We are not afraid of stormy winds and frightening waves; bravely and [with] perseverance, we advance forward. Our school is erected on the lonely island of the ocean. We will study hard, and are not afraid of gongfei on the opposite shore.

   • 2022 August 4, Wu, Huizhong; Johnson Lai, “China claims ‘precision missile strikes’ in Taiwan Strait”, in AP News‎, archived from the original on 04 August 2022:

     The ministry also said it tracked long-distance rockets and ammunition firing in outlying islands in Matsu, Wuqiu and Dongyin.

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