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The Second World War's hostilities came to a close on 2 September 1945, with the defeat of the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany.Taiwan, which had been ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, was placed under the control of the Kuomintang-led Republic of China (ROC) by the promulgation of General Order No. 1 and the signing of the Instrument of Surrender on that day.
People's Republic of China established in mainland China; Government of the Republic of China relocated to Taiwan; 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 ...
八年參謀總長日記 [8-year Diary of the Chief of the General Staff (1981-1989)] (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Commonwealth Publishing. ISBN 9576216389. Huang, Fu-san (2005). "A Brief History of Taiwan". ROC Government Information Office. Archived from the original on 1 August 2007. Rubinstein, Murray A. (1999), Taiwan: A New History, East Gate Books
Project Guoguang (Chinese: 國光計劃) was an attempt by the Republic of China (ROC), based in Taiwan, to reconquer mainland China from the People's Republic of China (PRC) by large scale invasion. It was the most elaborate of the ROCs plans or studies to invade the mainland after 1949.
CANBERRA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Chinese military drills in the straits of Taiwan in 2023 practiced manoeuvres key to an invasion of the island, although an actual attack was not imminent or inevitable ...
SEAL Team Six, the US Navy commando unit that killed Osama bin Laden, has spent more than a year training to help Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, according to a new report.
China has declared two days of major military exercises simulating an invasion of Taiwan, a provocative move that it describes as “punishment” for the island’s newly inaugurated president.
The incident is considered to be one of the most important events in Taiwan's modern history and was a critical impetus for the Taiwan independence movement. [7] In 1945, following the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II, the Allies handed administrative control of Taiwan over to China, thus ending 50 years of Japanese colonial rule ...