Citations:Taiwan Strait

English citations of Taiwan Strait

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• 1946, “Japanese Colonies (Before surrender in 1945)”, in Lewis Copeland, editor, The Handy Encyclopedia Of Useful Information‎^[1], Philadelphia: Blakiston Company, page 147:

  Formosa (Taiwan) is an island located about 200 miles north of the Philippine Islands, and separated from the southeastern coast of China by Taiwan Strait.

• 1971 [1964 January 18], Lyndon Johnson, “Letter to Chairman Khrushchev”, in The Vantage Point‎^[2], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 602:

  This Nation, which has fundamental commitments to the Republic of China, has for many years sought the renunciation of force in the Taiwan Strait.

• 1973 September 23, “Porcelain kilns are booming”, in Free China Weekly‎^[3], volume XIV, number 37, Taipei, page 2:

  Kinmen now supplies fully a third of Taiwan’s kaolin and feldspar need. A total of 40,000 tons of kaolin and 4,200 tons of feldspar will be shipped across the Taiwan Strait this year.

• 1977, Selig S. Harrison, China, Oil and Asia: Conflict Ahead?‎^[4], New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 1:

  It was New Year's Eve, and the eighteen American officials who had hurriedly gathered in the State Department Operations Room on 31 December 1970, were still sharply divided after four hours of discussion.¹ The issue was what, if anything, the Seventh Fleet should do in the event of Chinese naval action against the U.S. seismic survey vessels then beginning to explore for oil in disputed waters of the East China Sea, the Taiwan Strait, and the Yellow Sea.

• 1996 March 15, James Pringle, “Peking sends out mixed signals”, in The Times‎^[5], number 65,528, →ISSN, →OCLC, Overseas News, page 14, column 8:

  CHINA sent both bellicose and conciliatory signals yesterday as tension continued in the Taiwan Strait over Chinese military exercises and the deployment of US naval battle groups.

• 2005, Bill Clinton, My Life‎^[6], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 314:

  China liked the Taiwanese investment, but could not agree to give up its claim to sovereignty over the island; finding the right balance between economic pragmatism and aggressive nationalism was a constant challenge for China's leaders, especially during election season in Taiwan. I thought China had gone too far with the missile tests, and quickly, but without fanfare, I ordered a carrier group from the U.S. Navy's Pacific fleet to sail to the Taiwan Strait. The crisis passed.

• 2012 April, Bruce A. Elleman, High Seas Buffer: The Taiwan Patrol Force, 1950-1979‎^[7], Newport, R.I.: Naval War College Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 115:

  In November 1965, while patrolling the Taiwan Strait, USS O’Brien arrived near Wuchiu Island just after an attack on two Nationalist patrol boats by PLAN torpedo boats and gunboats.

• 2022 June 13, “Video shows Zelensky call on world to help Taiwan before China invades”, in Taiwan News‎^[8], archived from the original on 13 June 2022:

  Alluding to the regional consequences of a war in the Taiwan Strait, Zelensky pointed out that there could be millions of refugees, similar to the result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.