lion rock

Example Sentences

• "The flag of Taiwan is seen painted on Shihyu Islet in front of Xiamen, a coastal city in China, in Lieyu Township, Kinmen, Taiwan, October 19, 2021."
• "The Kinmen Defense Command said the drone entered restricted airspace over Shiyu island just after noon."
• "The Kinmen command said in a statement on Tuesday evening that soldiers stationed on three islets — Dadan (大膽), Erdan (二膽) and Shiyu (獅嶼) — each detected a Chinese commercial drone flying in restricted areas near their respective outposts at about 4:23pm."
• "Troops on Kinmen's Shi Island (獅嶼) shot down a Chinese civilian-operated drone Thursday, the first such shootdown since Taiwan ordered a more robust response to unauthorized incursions. In a statement, the Kinmen Defense Command said soldiers stationed on the county's Shi Island (獅嶼) detected an unidentified Chinese drone flying in restricted areas near its outpost at 12:03 p.m. Thursday."
• "After the shoot-down of the drone, Taiwan’s military rushed extra drone jammers — which can disrupt signals of approaching drones — to its bases on Kinmen and Matsu Islands, said Maj. Gen. Chang Jun-Shen of the Kinmen Defense Command. The two islands, with substantial garrisons, send soldiers to Shiyu, or Lion Islet, the tiny outlying island where soldiers shot down the drone. Fewer than 20 soldiers are posted on the islet, defense analysts said.[…] “There is no evidence these commercial drones flown over outlying islands, including Lion Rock, were under military control,” he said."
• "We are as close as you can get to China without entering the country. Little Kinmen, a tiny frontier island of sorghum fields and abandoned military forts, is less than three kilometres from the mainland port metropolis of Xiamen. The craggy islet of Lion Rock, which made international headlines in September when Taiwanese soldiers stationed there shot down a Chinese drone, sits just off the beach."