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The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1995–1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis or the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was the effect of a series of missile tests conducted by the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the waters surrounding Taiwan, including the Taiwan Strait, from 21 July 1995 to 23 March 1996. The first set of missiles fired in mid ...
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) in Taiwan. The conflict focused on several groups ...
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). In this conflict, the PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China (in the Taiwan Strait) in an attempt to take control of Taiwan from the Chinese Nationalist Party ...
Taiwan portal. v. t. e. The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became an annexed territory of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War. The consequent Republic of Formosa resistance movement on Taiwan was defeated by ...
May 23, 2024 at 12:30 PM. By Bernard Orr and Yimou Lee. BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China launched "punishment" drills around Taiwan on Thursday in what it said was a response to "separatist acts ...
Taiwan Strait. / 24.81111°N 119.92833°E / 24.81111; 119.92833. 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 narrowest part is 130 km (81 mi; 70 nmi) wide.
TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan reported renewed Chinese military activity nearby on Wednesday, saying China's warships and warplanes were carrying out "joint combat readiness patrols", less than a week ...
The war on drugs is the policy of a global campaign, [ 6] led by the United States federal government, of drug prohibition, military aid, and military intervention, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the United States. [ 7][ 8][ 9] The initiative includes a set of drug policies that are intended to discourage the production ...