Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Formosa Strait.
The 21 million Chinese in Taiwan export $14 billion more a year than do the 1.1 billion Chinese on the mainland. Taiwan's per capita income is $6,335, more than nineteen times higher than that of the People's Republic of China across the Straits of Formosa.
[1992, Richard Nixon, “The Southern Hemisphere”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2381 more example
One possibility was to let the Communist authorities understand that, in the absence of satisfactory progress, we intended to move decisively without inhibition in our use of weapons, and would no longer be responsible for confining hostilities to the Korean Peninsula. We would not be limited by any world-wide gentleman's agreement. In India and in the Formosa Straits area, and at the truce negotiations at Panmunjom, we dropped the word, discreetly, of our intention.
1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181
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