Formosa Strait

British  

noun

1. Also called: Taiwan Strait.  an arm of the Pacific between Taiwan and mainland China, linking the East and South China Seas

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Formosa Strait

One other strait of crucial significance, the Formosa Strait between China and Taiwan, is now being scrutinized in detail as a result of what’s happening in the Persian Gulf.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 21, 2026

The Russians first defected from Communism when their ship, the oil tanker Tuapse, was seized by the Chinese Nationalists in the Formosa Strait about 20 months ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1953 Radford advised Eisenhower to revise Harry Truman's two-way U.S. blockade of the Formosa Strait.

From Time Magazine Archive

For more than a decade, the morale of Formosa's 2,000,000 Chinese Nationalists has been nourished by the hope that one day they will return to their homeland only 90 miles away across the Formosa Strait.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Independence steered through the Formosa Strait, across the Eastern Sea, and on the 25th of July entered the bay of Nangasaki under Russian colours, which she thenceforth continued to fly.

From Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir