Remote Corner of Taiwan Confronts Wartime Scenario: Life With No Internet

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Residents on a tiny Taiwanese island got a taste of what a conflict could look like between Beijing and Taipei after two underwater internet cables are severed

Matsu’s damaged undersea cables cut off family communication, force businesses to use cash, in potential preview of Chinese attack

Lin Hsiao-chien, a grocery store owner on Dongyin, lost phone and texting services after the cables were cut.For decades, residents of the tiny island of Dongyin, roughly 30 miles off the coast of China, have lived at the edge of tensions between Taipei and Beijing. For the past month, they’ve had a taste of what could come in the event ofOn Feb.

 

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Starlink.

I lived in Taiwan when China shelled Matsu daily back in the late 1950s.

What have you murikkkans done now? First blowing up NS2, and now you're taking out more underwater infrastructure Wtf is wrong with you 'people?' Just because murikkkan infrastructure is older than Biden's grandad, you want other people to have bad infrastructure also

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