Taiwan Strait
Proper noun
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Proper noun
- The strait dividing mainland China from Taiwan and connecting the East and South China Seas.
- 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.
- Black Ditch
- Formosa Strait
- Strait of Fokien
- Channel of Formosa
- French: détroit de Taïwan
- German: Formosastraße
- Portuguese: Estreito de Taiwan
- Russian: Тайва́ньский проли́в
- Spanish: estrecho de Taiwán
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