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Arguments over Kinmen's relationship with China swing between accusing someone of either jeopardizing the most crucial geopolitical relationship of all or committing treason, said Michael Szonyi, director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University and the author of Cold War Island, a book about Kinmen. Virtually every local issue on Kinmen, no matter how small, gets linked to the larger geopolitical context of how to relate to a rising and changing China, Szonyi said. These are exactly the same questions that Taiwan, that Africa and Latin America, that even the United States are increasingly grappling with.