{"id":8162,"date":"2025-09-07T13:24:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T07:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8162"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:39:03","slug":"taiwan-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/taiwan-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Taiwan Strait Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China&#8217;s military recently said its forces had followed and warned a Canadian and an Australian warship, which were sailing through the sensitive Taiwan Strait, in a move it criticised as a provocation.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Taiwan Strait<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taiwan Strait, also called <\/span><b>Formosa Strait<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>separates continental Asia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and the island of <\/span><b>Taiwan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>extends from the South China Sea<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the southwest <\/span><b>to the East China Sea <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in the northeast.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It<\/span><b> runs between<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the <\/span><b>coast of the Fujian (Fukien) Province <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <\/span><b>island of Taiwan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has an <\/span><b>average width of 180 km<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, while its narrowest part is 130 km wide.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It <\/span><b>sits on Asia\u2019s continental shelf <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that runs along the entire stretch of the strait.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is <\/span><b>relatively shallow.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has an average depth of about 490 ft and a minimum depth of 82 ft.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Ports<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The chief ports are <\/span><b>Amoy in mainland China <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>Kao-hsiung in Taiwan.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Rivers<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Several rivers, including the <\/span><b>Jiulong and Min rivers from China\u2019s <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fujian Province, drain into the Taiwan Strait.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Islands<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Kinmen and Matsu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are two of the largest and most significant islands in the strait located off the <\/span><b>Fujian coast of China.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The biggest islands<\/span><b> along the Taiwan side<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> include <\/span><b>Penghu (or Pescadores),<\/b> <b>Xiamen, and Pingtan.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>Xiamen and Pingtan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Islands are <\/span><b>administered by the People\u2019s Republic of China, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">while the other three islands: <\/span><b>Penghu (or Pescadores), Kinmen, and Matsu <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are <\/span><b>under the administration of <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the Republic of China (<\/span><b>Taiwan<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Penghu <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(or Pescadores) Island is the <\/span><b>largest and most populous island<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the Taiwan Strait.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It serves as a<\/span><b> busy navigational waterway<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, on which millions of tons of cargo are ferried annually. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">The strait is also one of the most <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">important fishing grounds in Chin<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a, and more than a hundred economically important fish species are found here.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-criticises-canadian-australian-warships-transiting-taiwan-strait-2025-09-06\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">REUT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan Strait is also called Formosa Strait which separates the island of Taiwan and continental Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":62484,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,2551,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-8162","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-taiwan-strait","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}