Formosa Strait

noun

1. an arm of the Pacific between Taiwan and mainland China, linking the East and South China Seas Also calledTaiwan Strait

Example Sentences

He served in a succession of government posts, and in 1949 joined his father and 2 million other mainlanders in a mass retreat across the Formosa Strait after the Communists seized power in Beijing.

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In 1955 members of his Cabinet predicted imminent war with Red China in the Formosa Strait.

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The Reds have had heavy troop concentrations along the Formosa Strait for years, but by last week they had added an estimated 100,000 men, raising the total to about 450,000.

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During the Korean war, Carpenter flew milk runs in P2V reconnaissance bombers over the South China Sea and the Formosa Strait.

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Sitting in for Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson at National Security Council sessions, he impressed Dwight Eisenhower with his penetrating, cool-headed summary of the case for defending the Nationalist-held islands of Quemoy and Matsu during the Formosa Strait crisis in 1954-55.

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