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	Taiwan Strait - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Taiwan Strait or Formosa Strait is a 180km-wide Strait between mainland China and the island of Taiwan.
		The Strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to East China Sea to the northeast.
		To the east are the west coast of Taiwan and the Pescadores.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taiwan_Strait (257 words)

	Taiwan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"Taiwan" is also commonly used to collectively refer to the territories governed by the Republic of China (ROC), which include the island of Taiwan, Lanyu (Orchid Island) and Green Island in the Pacific coast off the Taiwan island, the Pescadores in the Taiwan Strait, and Kinmen and Matsu off the coast of mainland Fujian.
		It is bounded to the east by the Pacific Ocean, to the south by the South China Sea and the Luzon Strait, to the west by the Taiwan Strait and to the north by the East China Sea.
		Taiwan has been transformed into a major industrialized economy and is often touted as the Taiwan Miracle and one of the East Asian Tigers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Taiwan (6198 words)

	Taiwan Strait: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Taiwan (taiwanese poj: tâi-oân) is located in east asia off the coast of mainland china, south of japan, and north of the philippines....
		The second taiwan strait crisis, also called the 1958 taiwan strait crisis, was a conflict that took place between the peoples republic of china (prc) and...
		The third taiwan strait crisis, also called the 1995-1996 taiwan strait crisis or the 1996 taiwan strait crisis, was the effect of a series of missile tests...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/ta/taiwan_strait.htm (1070 words)

	The Security Situation in the Taiwan Strait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Taiwan is acquiring advanced antisubmarine warfare technology which will likely improve their ability to counter PLA submarines operating off the coast of Taiwan.
		Taiwan's naval modernization program--dubbed "Kuang Hua" or "Glorious China"--includes the licensed-production of eight Perry-class (Cheng Kung-class) frigates; the purchase of six Lafayette-class (Kang Ting-class) frigates from France; and, the lease of eight Knox-class frigates from the United States.
		Taiwan's small surface fleet and four submarines are numerically insufficient to counter China's major surface combatant force and its ASW assets likely would have difficulty defeating a blockade supported by China's large submarine force.
	www.defenselink.mil /pubs/twstrait_02261999.html (11445 words)

	Asia Society: Speeches
		Taiwan may be the only country among the most recent wave of democratizing countries in which the ruling authoritarian political party has survived repeated contests of democratic elections.
		It is an effort to encourage the people on Taiwan to look forward and grasp the opportunity to integrate themselves into the "global village," and it is certainly not an attempt to mobilize the Taiwan inhabitants as a different race or people against their compatriots on the Chinese mainland.
		However, Taiwan's realism regarding cross-Straits issues does not mean, as mainland China argues, to "formalize" the current status of separation between Taiwan and mainland China; on the contrary, it aims to treat the situation as it is, and is willing to work gradually towards eventual reunification.
	www.asiasociety.org /speeches/johnhchang.html (4243 words)

	Confidence-Building Across the Taiwan Strait: Taiwan Strait as a Peace Zone Proposal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Strategically, Taiwan forgoes future limited military options aimed at reducing existing threats in exchange for gaining the strategic removal of China's ballistic missile threat and further deepening a new consensus across the Taiwan Strait.
		Taiwan is excluded from almost all the functional CBMs in the region.
		After Taiwan was expelled from the IAEA, the U.S., Taiwan and the IAEA agreed informally that an existing trilateral nuclear agreement would provide the basis for continuing safeguards on Taiwan's nuclear materials and facilities.
	www.brookings.edu /fp/cnaps/papers/2000_yuan.htm (2721 words)

	Taiwan Strait: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		To the east are the west coast of Taiwan and the Pescadores (Pescadores: the pescadores islands (chinese: ; wade-giles: peng-hu;...
		The Strait has been the theatre for several military confrontations between the People's Republic of China (People's Republic of China: the peoples republic of china (prc) is a state that comprises most of the cultural,...
		Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (Second Taiwan Strait Crisis: the second taiwan strait crisis, also called the 1958 taiwan strait crisis, was a conflict...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/taiwan_strait (351 words)

	Taiwan Strait
		He said that he thought that the Chinese were trying to intimidate Taiwan before the elections and that after the elections are over that the forces involved would return to their barracks.
		In conjunction with the tests, Taiwan intelligence reported that the PRC was planning on conducting a joint sea-air military exercise codenamed `Jiu-wu-qi' and that on July 16 the PRC Air Force stationed a number of F-7 or F-8 aircraft at airports located within 250 nautical miles of Taiwan --a highly unusual and provocative move.
		Taiwan's electorate demonstrated to Beijing that its bellicose campaign of threats and intimidation was ill-conceived and ineffectual.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/taiwan_strait.htm (4143 words)

	Taiwan Strait on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		TAIWAN STRAIT [Taiwan Strait] Chinese Taiwan haixia, arm of the Pacific Ocean, between China's Fujian coast and Taiwan, linking the East and South China seas.
		Taiwan: seeking a meaningful dialogue: Jaushieh Joseph Wu discusses the many dimensions of Taiwan-China relations and calls for a new approach by China's leaders to cross-Taiwan Strait relations.
		Crossing the Taiwan strait: Jianhai Bi examines China-Taiwan relations in light of recent visits to the mainland by Taiwanese opposition leaders.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/T/TaiwanS1t.asp (278 words)

	Report to Congress (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Functional non-hardware initiatives address many of the shortcomings in Taiwan’s military readiness that were identified in the February 1999 DoD Report to Congress on the Security Situation in the Taiwan Strait.
		The PRC claims that Taiwan is an inalienable part of China and has reserved the right to use force to unify Taiwan with the mainland if Taiwan declares independence, if Taiwan is occupied by a foreign country, if it acquires nuclear weapons, or if Taiwan indefinitely refuses the peaceful settlement of cross-Strait reunification through negotiation.
		In the latter case, our goal would be that Taiwan defend itself without outside assistance or, as a fallback, that it defend itself long enough to permit outside assistance, and that the combination of Taiwan and U.S. forces defeat a PLA attack on Taiwan, should the U.S. decide to intervene.
	www.defenselink.mil /pubs/twstrait_12182000.html (2411 words)

	Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
		Ideology, Strategy and Misperception: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis and American-Sino-Soviet Relations in the 1950s by Lorenz Lüthi -- Traditional interpretations assumed that the PRC wanted at least to occupy Jinmen and Mazu if not Taiwan; only American nuclear threats forced the Chinese to back away from their expansive designs.
		The military situation in the strait began to look more favorable for the Republic of China (ROC) in 1956 and 1957, a result of these improvements in the Nationalist forces due to US military assistance, and of the 1957 agreement between the United States and the Republic of China that placed Matador missiles on Taiwan.
		If the Chinese discussed with Khrushchev their concern over developments in the strait and their objectives regarding the offshore islands, it is likely that he recommended caution (although in his memoirs Khrushchev states that he was in favor of liquidating the islands in preparation for an attack on Taiwan itself).
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/quemoy_matsu-2.htm (1516 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: Strait Talk -- Nov. 15, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Beijing sees Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian, who was re-elected to a second four-year term in March, as a dangerous "splittist" who is determined to lead Taiwan to independence, something that China has made clear it will not tolerate.
		Taiwan is an independent sovereign country and a country in which freedom, democracy, human rights and peace are upheld and respected.
		Taiwan is an independent, sovereign state and, according to its constitution, its moniker is the Republic of China.
	time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501041115-750848,00.html (1396 words)

	TIMEasia Magazine: What Taiwan Wants
		Taiwan's presidential election might prove to be a perilous watershed in its relationship with China.
		By blocking Taiwan's entry into almost every international organization and isolating the island diplomatically, all the while threatening it with military action if it goes its own way, China allows itself to be painted as a neighborhood bully by Taiwan politicians looking to garner support from disaffected voters.
		Never before has Taiwan's status—sovereign state, or exiled government waiting to return to China, or renegade province bracing to be reabsorbed by the mainland—been as hotly debated on the island.
	www.time.com /time/asia/covers/501040315/story.html (867 words)

	Untitled Document
		Located across the Taiwan Strait from mainland China (80 miles at the closest point), Taiwan is a leading economic and trading center, with one of the busiest ports in the world (Kaohsiung).
		Taiwan recently has lifted some restrictions on direct trade with and investment in mainland China, which is expected to increase cross-strait commercial ties.
		Taiwan is grappling with the environmental ramifications of building one of Asia's richest economies through a decades-long commitment to economic growth.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/taiwan.html (3026 words)

	CNN.com - Referendum stirs up Taiwan Strait - Aug. 19, 2003
		Taiwan voters will likely be asked to vote on as many as three topics: whether to build a nuclear plant, to cut the number of legislators by half, and to mobilize more resources to gain representation on the World Health Organization (WHO).
		Firstly, it is to Chen's advantage to shift the attention of Taiwan voters from economics to politics.
		The DPP leadership realizes, however, that Taiwan would be subject to much more pressure as relations between China and the U.S. improve thanks to Washington's need for Chinese cooperation on the Iraqi and North Korean fronts.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/18/willy.column (986 words)

	Taiwan Cross-Strait Directory: Asia-Pacific Digital Library
		Washing a short segment of the East Asian landmass at the Pacific Ocean's westerly reach, the Taiwan Strait connects the South and East China Seas.
		For some, Taiwan's present autonomy and self-determination are a humiliating reminder of Qing Dynasty ineptness -- its capitulation to Japanese imperialism in 1895.
		In the former view, self-governance in Taiwan, is also an unfinished chapter of the Chinese Civil War of 1927-1949, especially if one emphasizes the collision of the Chinese Communist Revolution with American power.
	apdl.kcc.hawaii.edu /~taiwan (504 words)

	Taiwan Strait or Taiwan Straits
		Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her spokesmen were evasive Friday when asked about reports that the US and Japan will announce Saturday that they jointly regard Taiwan as a mutual security concern, a move seen as potentially committing both countries to act in the event of a Chinese attack on Taiwan.
		In a different article, this one by the New York Times, the incorrect term ''Taiwan Straits'' is also used in a quote taken from a US government document.
		But the Taiwan Strait is just one strait, one body of water between Taiwan and China, and all maps call it "the Taiwan Strait." Other famous straits in the world include the Stait of Gilbraltor and the Bering Strait, among over 100 others.
	taiwanstrait.blogspot.com (982 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Taiwan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Throughout this period, the island prospered and became one of East Asia's economic "Tigers." The dominant political issues continue to be the relationship between Taiwan and China - specifically the question of eventual unification - as well as domestic political and economic reform.
		Taiwan has a dynamic capitalist economy with gradually decreasing guidance of investment and foreign trade by government authorities.
		Taiwan has benefited from cross-Strait economic integration and a sharp increase in world demand to achieve substantial growth in its export sector and a seven-year-high real GDP growth of 6.1% in 2004.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/tw.html (1339 words)

	Tide of Tension on Taiwan Strait (washingtonpost.com)
		TAIPEI, Taiwan, March 17 -- China's new anti-secession law has produced a sudden rise in tension across the Taiwan Strait, leaving Taipei in a combative mood and putting an indefinite hold on practical improvements such as direct airline flights to mainland China.
		Nevertheless, the Chinese legislation, with its threat to use "non-peaceful means" to prevent Taiwan's formal independence, has, for the foreseeable future, poisoned what had been an improving atmosphere and canceled out a string of conciliatory gestures from both sides that had raised hopes for progress in the long and bitter standoff.
		By hardening the atmosphere, the legislation has also increased chances for approval in Taiwan's parliament of a long-delayed purchase of U.S. weapons systems, a deal proposed by Chen's government and urged by the Bush administration, according to legislators.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A45090-2005Mar17.html (894 words)

	First Taiwan Strait Crisis Quemoy and Matsu Islands
		The Seventh Fleet was sent into the Straits under orders to prevent any attack on the island, and also prevent the Kuomintang forces to attack on China.
		During the First Taiwan Straits Crisis the Peoples Liberation Army launched heavy artillery attacks on the offshore island of Quemoy after the US lifted its blockade of Taiwan, making possible Nationalist attacks on mainland China.
		In the first Taiwan Strait crisis of 1954-55 the USSR had been quite ambiguous in its support for China's campaign to "liberate" Taiwan, whereas the United States had indicated that it was willing to use tactical nuclear weapons in defense of the island.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/quemoy_matsu.htm (928 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Clinton urges Taiwan Strait calm
		Mr Clinton made the remarks during a visit to Taiwan that has drawn criticism from China, but he said he stood by Beijing's One-China policy.
		The Chinese leadership regards Taiwan as a breakaway province and does all it can to exclude the island from international bodies and summits.
		Mr Clinton arrived in Taiwan on Sunday evening after a visit to the mainland on an official invitation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4301789.stm (296 words)

	Taiwan Strait
		Formosa Strait - Formosa Strait: see Taiwan Strait.
		Taiwan - Taiwan, Portuguese Formosa, officially Republic of China, island nation (2005 est.
		706,811), W central Taiwan, on the Taiwan Strait.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0847662.html (236 words)

	Cross-Strait Relations between China and Taiwan
		Press release by Mainland Affairs Council of Taiwan on March 14, 2005, in response to the adoption of the Anti-Secession Law
		Issued by the Office for Taiwan Affairs under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council
		The Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1996: Strategic Implications for the United States Navy
	newton.uor.edu /Departments&Programs/AsianStudiesDept/china-taiwan.html (1940 words)

	News and Current Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On 25 February 1999, the US Department of Defense issued a report on Security in the Taiwan Strait.
		On 24 March 1999, the Senate introduced a Bill on Taiwan's Security, while on 18 May, the House version was introduced.
		3 February 1999 Taiwan Safety and Security Resolution in the House A bipartisan resolution was introduced in the House, strongly urging the Clinton Administration to seek a public renunciation by China of any use of force against Taiwan.
	www.taiwandc.org /news-bal.htm (418 words)

	Taiwan Strait Creation @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Even high level government officials at the US State Department have made this mistake
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