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The Taiwan Strait is a 180-kilometer (110 mi; 97 nmi)-wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north.
The island of Taiwan, formerly known to Westerners as Formosa, has an area of 35,808 square kilometres (13,826 sq mi) and makes up 99% of the land under ROC control. It lies about 180 kilometres (112 mi) across the Taiwan Strait from the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
The Taiwan Strait - Formosa Strait, Tâihái — a 180 kilometres (110 mi) wide strait of the Pacific Ocean, located in East Asia. The strait connects the South China Sea and East China Sea , and separates the Island of Taiwan and Mainland China .
The Taiwan Strait, located between mainland China and the sovereign island nation, is a busy trade route and international waterway. The US and its allies and partners, including Taiwan, maintain ...
Sele Strait (a.k.a. Galowa Strait, Revenges Strait) – between Salawati and New Guinea; Serpent's Mouth (Boca de la Serpiente) – between Trinidad and Venezuela; Shelikof Strait – between the Alaska mainland to the west and Kodiak and Afognak islands to the east, in the USA; Sibutu Passage – between Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago
The U.S. and the Canadian navies sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Saturday, in a challenge to China's sweeping territorial claims. The USS Ralph Johnson and the Royal Canadian Navy ...
Taiwan's fleet of P-3C Orion anti-submarine aircraft are based at the Pingtung air base in southern Taiwan, giving easy access to the southern part of the strait.
First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–1955) Taiwan United States China: Ceasefire. Chinese withdrawal, status quo ante bellum. 567 troops killed; Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958) Taiwan United States China: Ceasefire. China ceases bombardment. 440 troops killed [1] Communist insurgency in Thailand (1965–1983) Thailand Taiwan [2] (until July ...