Matsu Islands
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Oct 30, 2026
Hoo Chiew PingGUEST
They actually don't call it Taiwan in the trade agreement.
Hoo Chiew PingGUEST
They call it Tai Ma Jing Peng, which is the islands of Taiwan, Kinmen, Penghu, and Matsu.
Hoo Chiew PingGUEST
In that way, the business actually formed the fundamental knot between Taiwan and Southeast Asia.
Hoo Chiew PingGUEST
In fact, the Taiwanese business people or Taishan, they sometimes can be more influential or powerful compared to the Taiwanese government due to their economic prominence.
11 MINS LATER
Bridget WelshHOST
Could you unpack this issue for us?
Hoo Chiew PingGUEST
Taiwan, so far, is the first authority in the world that has made a judgment through their court, penalized a Chinese ship that was involved in the cutting of the undersea cable near Kinmen.
Hoo Chiew PingGUEST
Another sabotage of the cable that met their offshore island Matsu lost access to the internet for about a week.
Hoo Chiew PingGUEST
That increased the concern within Taiwan about how should they increase their cyber resilience and also how to protect the physical critical infrastructure.
speaker_0HOST
It is a beautiful, cloudless day for the inhabitants of the island of Kinmen, also referred to as Kimoi, but the atmosphere is tense.
speaker_0HOST
A month earlier, the Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China, known today as Taiwan, cancelled leave for all military personnel amid rising tensions over Kinmen and the Matsu Islands 150 miles to the northeast in response to a massive buildup by communist forces of the People's Republic of China.
speaker_0HOST
Reconnaissance of the Chinese mainland shows heavy artillery pieces being moved into pre-built emplacements while Republic of China or ROC naval warships along with aircraft have been harassed and even fired upon by forces of the People's Republic of China or PRC within the last 10 days.
speaker_0HOST
ROC observation posts in Kinmen note that PRC gunners on the mainland have removed the muzzle covers from their artillery pieces, but other than that, the situation appears normal.
26 MINS LATER
speaker_0HOST
If there is a moment to test American resolve in Asia, this is it.
speaker_0HOST
On the 18th of July, Mao gathers his top military planners and orders preparations for a shelling campaign.
speaker_0HOST
He orders them to fire 100,000 to 200,000 shells in the initial bombardment, followed by 1,000 shells a day until the ROC troops in Kinmen and the Matsu Islands capitulate.
speaker_0HOST
The leader of the PRC reassures his generals that this is the long-awaited opportunity to confront the United States, telling them, "...we must not fear the ghost.
JoeHOST
Look at the Matsu blackout in February 2023.
JoeHOST
Two critical cables connecting the Matsu Islands were severed within six days of each other by Chinese vessels.
JoeHOST
Then in February 2025, we have the incredibly brazen case of the Hongtai 58.
SunnyHOST
I remember reading about this one.
BecHOST
making me homesick yeah Yeah.
BecHOST
Actually, we were saying the last time we felt like we'd been somewhere a little bit like that was all the way in Matsu Islands in Taiwan, which was however many thousand kilometers away.
BecHOST
So that's pretty interesting to start seeing some symmetry, I guess.
CamHOST
Yeah.
Alex TruppHOST
The rivals are expected to clash over relocating Songshan Airport, the proposed AI industrial park, and urban renewal policy in the closely watched Taipei mayoral race.
Alex TruppHOST
Next, a fatal accident in the Matsu Islands.
Alex TruppHOST
Three workers died Wednesday morning while repairing a cargo vessel at Mengao Harbor on Dongju Island in Taiwan's Matsu Archipelago after they apparently inhaled an unknown gas and lost consciousness from oxygen deprivation.
Alex TruppHOST
The men were doing hull repair work on the work boat Dong Ping Number 17 when the accident happened.
小花蓮HOST
找得到。
阿楊HOST
不，不对喔。它是一种台语叫做刺巴，英语叫做 Barnacle 的动物。[音效] Barnacle 啊，就是刺巴，是一种生活在海里的节肢动物，对它的外形可以粗粗分成三种款。一种呢，是在海岸边的岩石、船底，或是海底的壳，还是红色的身体里会看到。就像小小的沙粒一样的刺巴。而第二种呢，是一种叫做寄居蟹，啊也有人叫它虎触，或是龟触，或是龟壳的刺巴。在金门、马祖，或是日本的一些地方，是被人拿来做海产吃的喔。我听说吃起来的感觉和虱目差不多。嗯，其实也不意外啦，因为刺巴和虱目一样都是节肢动物啦，而且都住在海里面。而第三种呢，就是我们今天要介绍的会寄生虱目的刺巴。它是怎样寄生的呢？我们现在就继续来介绍啰。[音效]这一类寄生的刺巴啊，在分类上是 Sacculina 属，啊就是比正还高一层的分类。若是要去知分类相关的内容啊，可以回去听《Pokemon 公主连》SP1 那集喔。而目前为止啊，全世界已经发现超过三百种的 Sacculina 的物种啊，他们都是寄生。而其中大部分都寄生在虱目的身体里头喔。啊一般来说啊，Sacculina 孵出来后，会在海里四处游，一直到找到它的宿主，啊，就是被寄生虫寄生的生物。啊这一次说的就是虱目。它找到宿主后呢，就会跑去宿主的身体里，吸收它们的营养大汉，然后会控制那只被寄生的虱目啊，来给它找食物呢。啊它的卵啊，会是一粒粒的，啊孵化后呢，会留在虱目腹部的那个地方，远远看过去啊，就就像是虱膏一样。我之所以呢，就是因为那个字啊，所以它的拉丁名才会用 Sacculina，啊那个 Sac 就是袋的意思，啊应该就是它名字的由来。在华语里面，把 Sacculina 叫做虱目奴隶。啊不过你如果听了我刚才形容 Sacculina 寄生虱目，就会发现说，其实是虱目在做人的奴隶喔。因为啊，目前为止，它没有台语正式的名字，所以啊，我就用其拉丁名 Sacculina 转化成日语的袋藤，来做它的台语名啰。啊听到那个虱目啊，还有虱膏，我想问小花连，你感觉有很好吃的的感觉呢？
小花蓮HOST
我感觉很糟糕，那个虱膏感觉很糟糕。
阿楊HOST
东北的，哎，多数人都会说，哇，这个不好吃啦，因为虱膏啊，还有虱目啊，是最好吃的部分喔。好，那么不过呢，被袋藤寄生的虱目，你感觉它还能不能吃？
Elisabeth BrawGUEST
But if both cables are taken out of service, then we would notice the moment it happens.
Elisabeth BrawGUEST
And that's why it was fascinating, um, to include the story of the Matsu Islands that were, that experienced, where people experienced precisely this in February 2023, when two Chinese merchant vessels cut first the first cable, then the second cable connecting the islands with Taiwan proper.
Elisabeth BrawGUEST
And if you want to imagine what life was like in the 1980s, then you, uh, you would do well to, uh, well, first of all, to read the chapter.
Elisabeth BrawGUEST
[chuckles] But second of all, to, to think about what it would be like if in, in this case, uh, the Matsu Islands', uh, cables were cut, but any, any cables anywhere, uh, because you, um...
Elisabeth BrawGUEST
You really, you would struggle to fill an hour.
Elisabeth BrawGUEST
You, uh, and, uh, I won't tell you what Matsu Islanders did, but it was difficult, and it went on and on and on.
Elisabeth BrawGUEST
And I won't tell you what happened on Chris- uh, on New Year's Eve, uh, last year, but, um, let's just say there was a risk that the, the repair crews wouldn't be able to keep up.
Elisabeth BrawGUEST
And, um, what if the situation were such that it was too dangerous for the repair crews to, to, uh, I call them, uh, cable surgeons or, um, ambulances of the ocean.
MattHOST
Let's talk about China.
MattHOST
A recent survey of the Chinese people found that 77% of them supported military action against Taiwan's outlying Kinmen and Matsu Islands if Taiwan officially declared independence.
MattHOST
About 24% supported a full-scale military attack, and in the same scenario, uh, 59% supported a, some sort of blockade of Taiwan.
MattHOST
Jared, so th- we were talking about this before the show.
JaredPANELIST
So China almost certainly has their own polling of, of the situation.
JaredPANELIST
If it does reflect the data above, I think China's most likely just to continue preparing itself for a quarantine, which is a law enforcement blockade, uh, or proper military blockade of Taiwan.
JaredPANELIST
And China remains unlikely to militarily take Taiwan's outlying Kinmen or Matsu Islands, uh, independent of a broader campaign.
JaredPANELIST
And the reason for that is that basically that would risk, it-- That would pro- pose too much of a risk for a successful unification of Taiwan, peaceful or otherwise.
John BoltonGUEST
This is four in one year.
John BoltonGUEST
And I think one of the principal things that Xi and the Chinese side of the table looking at Trump are trying to do is assess just what he would do if they threw a blockade around Taiwan or if they seized Kimoy and Matsu Islands off the coast of China or the Pescadores or took some other steps against Taiwan or in the South China Sea.
John BoltonGUEST
And I'm afraid they see somebody who, if that happened, wouldn't know how to respond.
Andre GunawallaHOST
So you were in the room in 2018, I believe you were in that famous photo where President Trump was sitting back, arms crossed as Angela Merkel was leering towards him and as the other European leaders staring back.