pengchia

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of Pengjia.

   “Under their arrangement, Wang and Chu left Fukien in a fishing boat about 4 p.m. on Oct. 13 and, after changing boats at Pengchia Isle off the northern coast of Taiwan, arrived in Toucheng, Ilan County, the morning of Oct. 15.”

   “In an apparently related story, the PRC has announced its sudden plans to escalate its already extensive military exercises by testing missiles in the East China Sea one hundred and fifty kilometers north of Taiwan, off Taiwan-held Pengchia islet.”

   “Two coast guard patrol vessels, the Hsin Bei and the Ho-shin, were joined by the navy’s Kang Ding frigate off Keelung and first headed toward Pengchia Islet, about 30 nautical miles away.”

   “Between July and August of that year, the Chinese Second Artillery Corps carried out missile tests near Pengchia Islet, just 155 kilometers from Taipei.”