Taiwan Straits

English

Proper noun

Taiwan Straits

1. Alternative form of Taiwan Strait
   • 1950 September 27, “Focus on Formosa”, in Scholastic Teacher Monthly‎^[1], →OCLC, page 9:

     Formosa is an island about 200 miles long and 80 miles wide. It is separated from China to the west by the Taiwan Straits.

   • 1974, Stephan Feuchtwang, “City Temples in Taipei Under Three Regimes”, in Mark Elvin, G. William Skinner, editors, The Chinese City Between Two Worlds‎^[2], Stanford, Cali.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 264:

     Taipei lies on the east bank of the Tan-shui river between the mouths of two of its tributaries, the Hsin-tien and the Chi-lung. These rivers drain a fertile and humid basin surrounded by mountains on all sides but the northwest, where the Tan-shui flows into the Taiwan Straits facing the mainland.

   • 1993 [1992 October 1], Pei-tsun Hau, “Stability, Democracy, the Rule of Law, Development, and Reunification”, in Straight Talk‎^[3], Taipei: Government Information Office, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16:

     Should the Chinese communists really intend to end their hostile stance toward Taiwan, they could readily follow the example set by President Lee who announced the termination of the Period of National Mobilization for Suppression of the Communist Rebellion by displaying their sincerity, on their own initiative, to peacefully resolve all conflicts between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits. This would certainly be very helpful in ending the hostility between the two sides.

   • 2003, Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Women's Rights Are Human Rights”, in Living History‎^[4], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 300:

     Tensions were running high over disagreements about Taiwan, nuclear proliferation, China’s sale of M-11 missiles to Pakistan and ongoing human rights abuses. Relations deteriorated even further in mid-August when the Chinese engaged in the bravado of military exercises in the Taiwan Straits.

   • 2022 March 10, Owen R. Cote, Jr., “One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China”, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists‎^[5], archived from the original on 20 March 2022:

     There are a number of reasons for China to be wary of launching an invasion of Taiwan, but the key military reason is that it cannot safeguard a properly sized, seaborne invasion force and the follow-on shipping necessary to support it during multiple transits across the 100-plus mile-wide Taiwan Straits. Protecting such an invasion force would require complete command of the sea surface of the Straits by China, but China cannot now and most likely will not be able in the future to come close to that level of command.

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