Pingtan

píngtǎn Píngtán English Pingtan County Alternative forms en Ping-tan P'ing-t'an Wade-Giles Etymology From the en cmn 平潭. Pronunciation pĭng′tän′ en Ping tan Proper noun en largest island province/Fujian c/China. en https://archive.org/details/peace_news_1081_1957.03.15/ March 15, 1957 Shipwrecked w:Peace News 1081 2 https://archive.org/details/peace_news_1081_1957.03.15/page/n5/ The shipwrecked group travelled by junk next day to Pingtan Island and four days later sailed to Hongkong. en July 20, 1959 U.S. Plane Accused Of Air Violation w:The Cumberland News https://archive.org/details/cumberland-news-1959-07-20/ Cumberland, Maryland 21 239 Tokyo (AP) 1 https://archive.org/details/cumberland-news-1959-07-20/page/n1/ 8 Peiping radio said a U.S. Navy aircraft violated Chinese Communist air space over Pingtan and White Dog islands off the coastal province of Fukien Sunday and added that a Red foreign ministry spokesman was "authorized to issue its 58th serious warning against the intrusion." en 21 March 1996 18 March 1996 He Jixiong (0149 2623 7160)<t:zh 何机雄> There Is a Feeling of Insecurity on Jinmen, Mazu, and Other Islands Daily Report: China !96-056 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036099052&seq=575 w:Foreign Broadcast Information Service Hong Kong ZHONGGUO TONGXUNSHE zh 0892-015X 7522935 75 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036099052&seq=655 2 The Chinese military today began a third round of military exercises in waters near Fujian's Pingtan Dao, causing a feeling of insecurity on Wuqiu [Wuchiu], Jinmen [Kinmen], and Mazu [Matsu] that are garrisoned by Taiwan troops. en 1997 Greg Austin Missile Diplomacy and Taiwan's Future: Innovations in Politics and Military Power https://books.google.com/books?id=KlBxAAAAMAAJ w:Strategic and Defence Studies Centre 9780731527205 231731097 14 The author went to Tungchu on 20 March, just two days after the PLA manoeuvres started on Pingtan Island. Though two-thirds of the civilian population had provisionally left Tungchu, the atmosphere was relaxed and, in the five hours spent there, the author was able to hear the remote sound of PRC guns just en OCTOBER 13, 2007 China to build sea bridge to 5th-largest island https://web.archive.org/web/20220615233411/https://www.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-29979620071013 15 June 2022 w:Reuters World News The 1.1 billion yuan ($152 million) sea bridge will connect Pingtan Island, located in the Taiwan Strait, to Fuqing, a city on the main landmass of eastern Fujian Province, Xinhua said. en August 4, 2022 Brad Lendon China fires missiles near Taiwan in live-fire drills as PLA encircles island https://web.archive.org/web/20220804071704/https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/04/asia/china-taiwan-military-exercises-intl-hnk-ml/index.html 04 August 2022 w:CNN Chinese state media said that exercises to simulate an air and sea "blockade" around Taiwan had started Wednesday, but offered little solid evidence to back up the claim. Later Thursday, images showed military helicopters flying past Pingtan island, one of Taiwan's closest points to mainland China. en en county prefecture-level city/Fuzhou province/Fujian c/China. en 1999 Ko-lin Chin Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States https://archive.org/details/smuggledchinesec0000chin/ Philadelphia w:Temple University Press 1-56639-733-2 99-36088 1127688443 13 https://archive.org/details/smuggledchinesec0000chin/page/13/ Although some Fuqin City residents have managed to go to the United States illegally, most have chosen to go to Japan, also illegally (Gu 1993). The other sending community is Pingtan County, located east of Fuqin City. Many of its residents have illegally immigrated to Taiwan, which is only about seventy sea miles away (Chang 1995). en July 30, 2022 A roundup of news from around the world. w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20220801033817/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/world-digest-july-31-2022/2022/07/30/ab70cd4e-1019-11ed-ab50-5d9e73892397_story.html 01 August 2022 0190-8286 2269358 National China held live-fire military drills in the Taiwan Strait on Saturday as U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepared to arrive in Asia. The exercises took place off the coast of Fujian province opposite Taiwan. A warning issued by the local maritime safety agency said the drills would be conducted near Pingtan, a county about 80 miles from Hsinchu city across the strait in northwestern Taiwan. en town district/Huiyang prefecture-level city/Huizhou province/Guangdong c/China. Translations island, county, town Chinese: Cantonese: yue 平潭 Mandarin: cmn 平潭 Píngtán Japanese: ja Korean: ko Further reading Pingtan, P'ing-t'an, Ping-tan en 1998 Pingtan Island Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2442 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2442/ 1 Anagrams en aginnpt Panting panting en 2-syllable words