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Formosa Strait

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Formosa Strait
See Taiwan Strait.
Formosa Strait
n
(Placename) an arm of the Pacific between Taiwan and mainland China, linking the East and South China Seas Also called Taiwan Strait
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China and Taiwan moved closer to overcoming six decades of hostilities today, as they signed deals drastically expanding direct flights and allowing shipping links across the Formosa strait.
China and Taiwan sign landmark deal by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
Also in 1949, the Communist Chinese People's Liberation Army forces had pushed the Chinese Nationalist forces off the Asian mainland across the Formosa Strait onto Formosa (now Taiwan).
Patrol squadrons in the Korean War by Burgess, Rick / Naval Aviation News
The escalation of military might between the two rivals has generated the most tension since the 1960s, when they exchanged almost daily artillery barrages across the Formosa Strait.
CHINA, TAIWAN SQUARE OFF IN SHOW OF ARMS by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
 
 
 
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