Citations:Taiwan Straits

English citations of Taiwan Straits

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• 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.

• 1996 May, Teng-hui Lee, “Political Reforms”, in Peace Through Democratic Reforms, Taipei: Wen Ying Tang Press Inc., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 16:

  For a long time, Western academics have doubted that democracy can develop in a society with Confucian culture. After seeing the obvious difference between the two sides of the Taiwan Straits, they have to adjust their views and make a new construct for their theories of political democracy.

• 2014 [2013 June 13], Jinping Xi, “Handle Cross-Straits Relations in the Overall Interests of the Chinese Nation”, in The Governance of China‎^[4], volume I, Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page [5]:

  Over the past five years, thanks to the concerted efforts of the two parties, two sides and people from both sides of the Taiwan Straits, we have opened a right path and made important progress in the peaceful development of cross-Straits relations.

• 2015 September 6, Xiaoxu Li, “Taiwan people come to worship goddess in Gansu”, in China Daily‎^[6], archived from the original on 2020-06-09, News‎^[7]:

  A ceremony for the legendary goddess – Xi Wangmu (Queen Mother of the West) -- in Jingchuan county, Gansu province, her reputed birthplace, on Aug 31, attracted people from both sides of the Taiwan Straits.

• 2022 March 10, Owen R. Cote, “One if by invasion, two if by coercion: US military capacity to protect Taiwan from China”, in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists‎^[8], 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.

• 2022 July 29, “PLA’s post ‘Preparing for war’ draws wide support from netizens ahead of Army Day”, in Global Times‎^[9], archived from the original on 29 July 2022:

  "Preparing for war!" This short social media post by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) 80th Group Army generated over 300,000 thumbs-up in 12 hours on Friday, amid high morale among Chinese soldiers ahead of the 95th anniversary of the founding of the PLA and escalating tensions across the Taiwan Straits.

• 2022 August 18, Sarah Marsh, Alexander Ratz, Ben Blanchard, “Taiwan envoy calls on Germany to up visits, military cooperation”, in Catherine Evans, editor, Reuters‎^[10], archived from the original on 18 August 2022, Asia Pacific:

  Critics have accused Germany of long being soft on Beijing on issues like rights abuses and its attitude towards Chinese-claimed, self-ruled Taiwan - in part due to its heavy economic reliance on China, Germany's top trading partner since 2016.
  But Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government has vowed to get tougher, with its coalition deal the first to mention Taiwan. It states that any changes to the status quo in the Taiwan Straits should only happen peacefully and by mutual agreement.