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The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (also known as the Formosa Crisis, the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Offshore Islands Crisis, the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis) was a brief armed conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The conflict focused on several groups ...
Each Taiwan Strait crisis posed significant risk of escalation to open war between great powers, the first two occurring in the context of the Cold War and the latter two dramatically heightening tensions between the United States and China. The U.S. government and armed forces, backing the R.O.C., played a major role in each crisis.
Aug 10, 2022 · In this explainer, Stanford scholar Oriana Skylar Mastro offers a brief history of the China and Taiwan dispute, the evolution of U.S. diplomacy in the region, and what signal Nancy Pelosi’s ...
Introduced by Hsiao-ting Lin, the papers of Wang Sheng provide a rare glimpse into the convictions of top Nationalist Chinese leaders in Taiwan that ingraining anticommunism into the souls of their Southeast Asian neighbors was vital to Taiwan’s international security.
The Cold War Comes to the Taiwan Strait. The pivotal events that led to the current conflict in the Taiwan Strait are widely known, namely, the Chinese Civil War and the ensuing Cold War in East Asia.
Following the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the ROC government retreated from the mainland as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China. The KMT retreated to Taiwan and declared Taipei the temporary capital of the ROC.
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In late 1949 and early 1950, American officials were prepared to let PRC forces cross the Strait and defeat Chiang, but after the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, the United States sent its Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Strait to prevent the Korean conflict from spreading south.
