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The Nationalists were defeated by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War. [33]: 125 The ROC government retreated to Taiwan.[33]: 125 In August 1949, the United States suspended the ROC's involvement in the Fulbright Program because the fleeing government was no longer able to make payments on the surplus war material it had purchased from the United States after the end of World War II.
The United States withdraws recognition of the Republic of China and recognizes the People's Republic of China. Four months later, the United States Congress passes the Taiwan Relations Act which establishes unofficial relations. 1980: Hsinchu Science Park founded [117] 1985: Population of Taiwan grows to 19,258,000 [27] 1987: 7 March
On Monday, the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense said it had detected 41 Chinese military aircraft, nine Chinese naval vessels and one “official ship” operating around Taiwan in the 24 hours ...
In August 1938, the United States Maritime Commission judged the Dollar Shipping Company unsound and assumed control over it, appointing William Gibbs McAdoo to succeed R. Stanley Dollar and Joseph R. Sheehan as the new president of the line. The first item of business was an amendment to the corporate charter, renaming the line as "American ...
The US agreed to acknowledge the so-called One China Policy and recognize Taiwan as part of China during the normalization of relations between Washington and Beijing in the 1970s under then ...
Sen. Joni Ernst lambasted the Pentagon Wednesday over shipments of mildew-infested body armor plates, mold-covered tactical vests and other subpar equipment to Tawain last year that Taipei spent ...
TMT Co. Ltd was founded as the Taiwan Maritime Transport Co. Ltd in 1958. The company began by operating in the banana export business. The company’s first boat was named Taiwan Banana in Chinese. It expanded over the years into different sectors and, at one point, had 10% of the world's wood chip carrier capacity. [1]
The Taiwan Strait is a major trade route through which about half of global container ships pass, and both the United States and Taiwan say it's an international waterway.