FORMOSA: Rough Week in the Strait. 6 minute read. TIME. September 22, 1958 12:00 AM GMT-4. F or the 100,000 Nationalist soldiers dug into the sandy soil of Quemoy Island, it was a grim week.

At week’s end, Chiang Kai-shek’s men braced themselves for an assault on one of the smaller islands in Formosa Strait—probably Tatan or Erhtan. Either, if worth little, would be hard to defend.

There's no love lost on either side of the Taiwan Strait. Or is that the Formosa Strait? Chinese film "The Go Master" is being withdrawn from the Golden Horse Awards, the longstanding kudofest for ...

In the Second Formosa Strait Crisis from August to October 1958, the United States deflected Sino-Soviet aggression against the offshore islands of Quemoy (金門) and Matsu (馬祖) with the deft display of ...

For over 75 years, the Republic and People’s Republic of China have confronted each other across the Taiwan Strait, a highly contested sea passage separating the two nations ...

On this day in 1955, the House approved a resolution authorizing the president to defend Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores (Penghu) Islands off the Chinese coast.

In his speech to the nation on the Formosa Straits situation, President Eisenhower committed the country to the defense of Quemoy and Matsu should negotiations prove fruitless, ...