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Chinese map of Taiwan, 1880. In 1874, Japan invaded aboriginal territory in southern Taiwan in what is known as the Mudan Incident (Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1874)). For six months Japanese soldiers occupied southern Taiwan and Japan argued that it was not part of the Qing dynasty.
The Battle of Kuningtou [4] or Battle of Guningtou (Chinese: 古寧頭之役; pinyin: Gǔníngtóu zhī yì; Wade–Giles: Ku 3-ning 2-t’ou 2 chih 1 i 4), also known as the Battle of Kinmen (金門戰役; Jīnmén Zhànyì), was fought over Kinmen in the Taiwan Strait during the Chinese Civil War in 1949.
The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (also known as the Formosa Crisis, the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Offshore Islands Crisis, the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis) was a brief armed conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) focused on several ROC-held islands a few miles from the Chinese mainland in the Taiwan Strait.
The goal of Taiwan's domestic submarine program, according to the head of the program Huang Shu-kuang, was to fend off any attempt from China to encircle Taiwan for an invasion or impose a naval blockade. The Haikun uses a Lockheed Martin combat system and will carry American-made torpedoes. [176]
China is preparing its militarized police for kinds of combat that would play a key role in any invasion of Taiwan. A September report from China Central Television shows what appears to be the ...
It is also left with the looming threat of invasion by China, which has grown more assertive and belligerent under strongman leader Xi Jinping. Xi has ramped up pressure on Taiwan and vowed to ...
Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895): Japanese forces land near Keelung [77] 7 June: Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895): Japanese forces occupy Taipei [75] October: Liu Yongfu leaves for the mainland [78] 21 October: Capitulation of Tainan: Tainan surrenders; so ends the Republic of Formosa [77] 1896: June
A Chinese invasion of Taiwan must focus on seizing a port to bring in tanks and supplies. Commercial or industrial ports are prime targets that would allow for rapid offloading. Taiwan may have ...