For the 100,000 Nationalist soldiers dug into the sandy soil of Quemoy Island, it was a grim week. While U.S. destroyers watched helplessly from outside the three-mile limit, Communist guns raked ...

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 Chinese film "The Go Master" is being withdrawn from the Golden Horse Awards, the longstanding kudofest for ...

Maritime transport is the backbone of global trade, moving over 80 per cent of goods traded worldwide by volume. Several ...

SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) -At least two supertankers made U-turns near the Strait of Hormuz following U.S. military strikes on Iran, shiptracking data shows, as more than a week of violence in the ...

The sailors were plucked out of the ocean by a Japanese patrol boat after the sub had aggressively attacked its convoy in the Formosa Strait en route to the Philippines.

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 ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 112. The standoff across the Taiwan Strait began during the Chinese Civil War, which pitted the fledgling Communists and the ...

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, and declared ...