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The Luzon Strait (Tagalog: Kipot ng Luzon, Chinese: 呂宋海峽; pinyin: Lǚsòng hǎixiá; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lū-sòng Hái-kiap) is the strait between Luzon and Taiwan. The strait thereby connects the Philippine Sea to the South China Sea in the western Pacific Ocean. [1] [2] This body of water is an important strait for shipping and ...
Sumba Strait – between Flores and Sumba, Indonesia; Sunda Strait – between Sumatra and Java; Surigao Strait – between Leyte and Mindanao islands in the Philippines; Suwannee Strait (prehistoric) – a.k.a. Gulf Trough: Florida (USA) Svinesund – between Norway and Sweden; The Swale – England: between the Isle of Sheppey and the ...
Bashi is the northern channel of Luzon Strait. The Bashi Channel (Chinese: 巴士海峽; pinyin: Bā shì hǎi xiá) [1] is a waterway between Mavulis Island of the Philippines and Orchid Island of Taiwan. It is a part of the Luzon Strait and the East is the Pacific Ocean between the East China Sea and the South China Sea. It is characterized ...
Chinese aircraft, including advanced Su-30 fighters and nuclear-capable H-6 bombers, flew in the strait as well as into the Bashi Channel that separates Taiwan from the Philippines, the ministry said.
BANGKOK (AP) — The United States military released video Monday of what it called an “unsafe” Chinese maneuver in the Taiwan Strait on the weekend, in which a Chinese navy ship cut sharply ...
The critical waterway between Taiwan and the Philippines, an important trade conduit laden with international undersea cables, has been closely watched and guarded by Chinese and American forces.
Former names of the Taiwan Strait include the Formosa Strait or Strait of Formosa, from a dated name for Taiwan; the Strait of Fokien or Fujian, from the Chinese province forming the strait's western shore; [2] and the Black Ditch, a calque of the strait's name in Hokkien and Hakka.
The situation in the Taiwan Strait, where China has carried out military exercises, is an "internal matter," Philippine Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro said on Friday, declining to comment on ...