 He compares China's patrols to its shelling of Kinmen more than four decades ago. It was all carefully timed, he says. China only fired on odd-number days and only between 7 to 8 p.m. That spared lives on Kinmen, but it also signaled if tensions worsened, it would be the people caught in between on Kinmen who would suffer first. Emily Fang, NPR News, Kinmen, Taiwan.