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Tension escalated between Taiwan and China During the past month following a major visit US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi for Taipei.
and hired China war games Near Taiwan to express its anger at what it sees as increased US support for the island, which Beijing considers a sovereign territory of China.
While meeting with a delegation from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution in her office, Tsai recalled the month-long attacks by China on the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen and Matsu islands off the coast of China. Chinese coast which began in August 1958.
She said: "64 years ago during the battle of August 23, our soldiers and civilians worked together and protected Taiwan so that we would have a democratic Taiwan today".
added: "The battle to protect our homeland showed the world that no threat of any kind might shake the resolve Taiwanese people To defend his nation, neither in the past, nor now, nor in the future".
And she went on: "We will also show the world that the people of Taiwan have the determination and confidence at the same time to safeguard peace, security, freedom and prosperity for ourselves".
The battle ended with the failure of China to seize the two islands.
In 1958, Taiwan resisted the attack with the support of the United States, which sent military hardware such as the Sidewinder advanced anti-aircraft missiles, giving Taiwan a technological advantage.
This crisis is often called the second Taiwan Strait Crisis, and it was the last time that Taiwanese forces engaged in large-scale combat with China.
The United States, which abandoned formal diplomatic relations with Taipei in favor of Beijing in 1979, remains Taiwan’s most important arms exporter.
Taiwan’s government says that because China has never ruled the island, it has no right to claim it or decide its future, something only Taiwan’s 23 million people can determine.
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Tension escalated between Taiwan and China During the past month following a major visit US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi for Taipei.
and hired China war games Near Taiwan to express its anger at what it sees as increased US support for the island, which Beijing considers a sovereign territory of China.
While meeting with a delegation from Stanford University’s Hoover Institution in her office, Tsai recalled the month-long attacks by China on the Taiwan-controlled Kinmen and Matsu islands off the coast of China. Chinese coast which began in August 1958.
“64 years ago during the battle of August 23, our soldiers and civilians worked together and protected Taiwan so that we would have a democratic Taiwan today,” she said.
She added, “The battle to protect our homeland showed the world that no threat of any kind might shake their resolve Taiwanese people to defend his nation, not in the past, nor now, nor in the future.”
“We will also show the world that the people of Taiwan have the determination and confidence at the same time to safeguard peace, security, freedom and prosperity for ourselves,” she said.
The battle ended with the failure of China to seize the two islands.
In 1958, Taiwan resisted the attack with the support of the United States, which sent military hardware such as the Sidewinder advanced anti-aircraft missiles, giving Taiwan a technological advantage.
This crisis is often called the second Taiwan Strait Crisis, and it was the last time that Taiwanese forces engaged in large-scale combat with China.
The United States, which abandoned formal diplomatic relations with Taipei in favor of Beijing in 1979, remains Taiwan’s most important arms exporter.
Taiwan’s government says that because China has never ruled the island, it has no right to claim it or decide its future, something only Taiwan’s 23 million people can determine.
