Everything about The Taiwan Strait totally explained
The
Taiwan Strait or
Formosa Strait is a 180 km-wide
strait between
mainland China and
Taiwan. The
strait is part of the
South China Sea and connects to
East China Sea to the northeast. The narrowest part is 131 km wide.
Fujian province on the mainland is to the west of the strait, while important islands like
Quemoy,
Amoy,
Hainan Island, and the
Matsu Islands are nearby. To the east are the west coast of Taiwan and the
Pescadores. The island fishermen use the strait as a fishing resource.
The Strait has been the theatre for several
military confrontations between the
People's Republic of China and the
Republic of China since the last days of the
Chinese Civil War in
1949 when the
Kuomintang (KMT) forces led by
Chiang Kai-shek retreated across the Strait and relocated its government on its final stronghold of Taiwan.
As part of Mainland China's
National Expressway Plan a tunnel, or possibly a bridge, was proposed in
2005 to link the cities of
Fuzhou,
Fujian and
Taipei in
Taiwan across the Taiwan Strait. If such an extreme construction would ever be built, it would by far exceed the length of any man-made tunnel in the world today. Engineers in Beijing state that a tunnel is technically feasible. Politicians in Taiwan stated that the project is propaganda for Beijing's
One-China policy.
The
Minjiang and
Jiulong Rivers empty into the strait.
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