Taiwan strait

14 Nov 2024 10:22:52 am

Tags : Taiwan strait

Topic: East Asia

Why in the news?

China\'s military began a live-fire exercise in Taiwan strait, maintaining pressure on the self-ruled island after staging large-scale drills and President Xi Jinping called for troops to prepare for war.

Source: The Hindu

About Taiwan strait:

It is also called Formosa Strait.
It separates the island of Taiwan and continental Asia.
The chief ports located here are Amoy in mainland China and Kao-hsiung in Taiwan.
Several rivers including the Jiulong and Min rivers from China’s Fujian Province drain into the Taiwan Strait.
The biggest islands along the Taiwan side include Penghu (or Pescadores), Xiamen, and Pingtan.
The Taiwan Strait constitutes a critical corridor connecting the South China Sea to the East China Sea and also serves as a busy navigational waterway, on which millions of tons of cargo are ferried annually.
It is also one of the most important fishing grounds in China and more than a hundred economically important fish species are found here.

Strait:

It is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.
It is similar to a canal cutting through an isthmus (a narrow strip of land), but a strait is formed naturally and canals are built by people.
Straits are often important transportation routes since they allow ships to pass from one body of water to another.

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