: The name " Republic of China " is not listed as Taiwan's " official name " under the " Government " section, due to U. S. acknowledgement of Beijing's One-China policy according to which there is one China and Taiwan is a part of it.

For much of the 1950s the threat of Communist invasion of Taiwan was very real, and required the U. S. Navy to safe guard the Taiwan Straits.

* 1978 – U. S. President Jimmy Carter announces that the United States will recognize the People's Republic of China and cut off all relations with Taiwan

The Congress agreed to his request in 1955 for the Formosa Resolution, which enabled him to prevent Chinese communist aggression against Chinese nationalists and established U. S. policy of defending Taiwan.

Then came an even more shocking confession: according to the CIA document, al-Faruq said two senior al-Qaeda officials, Abu Zubaydah and Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, had ordered him to ' plan large-scale attacks against U. S. interests in Indonesia, Malaysia, ( the ) Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam and Cambodia.

It is used by most research and academic libraries in the U. S. and several other countries ; for example, Australia and Taiwan, ROC Most public libraries and small academic libraries continue to use the older Dewey Decimal Classification ( DDC ).

Progestin-only EC is available as a dedicated emergency contraceptive product under many names worldwide, including: in the U. S., Canada and Honduras as Plan B ; in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Portugal and Italy as Levonelle ; in South Africa as Escapelle ; in 44 nations including France, most of Western Europe, India, and several countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America as NorLevo ; and in 44 nations including most of Eastern Europe, Mexico and many other Latin American countries, Portugal, Australia and New Zealand, Israel, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore as Postinor-2.

The number of visitors — 85 % of whom come from Japan, Taiwan, and the U. S .— reached nearly 67, 000 in 1997, more than quadruple the level of a decade earlier.

Intel, the world's largest manufacturer, has facilities in Europe and Asia as well as the U. S. Other top manufacturers include Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ( Taiwan ),

Taiwan has transformed itself from a recipient of U. S. aid in the 1950s and early 1960s to an aid donor and major foreign investor, with investments primarily centered in Asia.

* The most prominent natural disasters of the decade include: Hurricane Andrew striking South Florida in August 1992, the crippling super storm of March 1993 along the Eastern Seaboard, the devastating 1994 Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles, the Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe, Japan in January 1995, the Blizzard of 1996 in the eastern U. S., the US drought of 1999, the deadly Hurricane Mitch which struck Central America in October 1998, and the destructive Oklahoma tornado outbreak in May 1999, the August 1999 İzmit earthquake in Turkey, and the September 1999 Chi-Chi earthquake in Taiwan.

* Ross, Robert S. " Navigating the Taiwan Strait: Deterrence, Escalation Dominance, and U. S .- China Relations.

He helped devise policies regarding the bitter disputes with the U. S., Taiwan, the Soviet Union ( after 1960 ), India and Vietnam.

* 1979-The U. S. switches diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China ( Taiwan ) to the People's Republic of China and passes the Taiwan Relations Act.

The aggressive tactic prompted U. S. President Clinton to invoke the Taiwan Relations Act and dispatch two aircraft carrier battle groups into the region off Taiwan's southern coast to monitor the situation, and PRC's missile tests were forced to end earlier than planned.

The act authorizes de facto diplomatic relations with the " governing authorities on Taiwan " ( which is currently the Republic of China government ) by giving special powers to the American Institute in Taiwan to the level that it is the de facto embassy, and states that any international agreements made between the ROC and U. S. before 1979 are still valid unless otherwise terminated.

The act provides for Taiwan to be treated under U. S. laws the same as " foreign countries, nations, states, governments, or similar entities ".

" Successive U. S. administrations have sold arms to the ROC in compliance with the Taiwan Relations Act despite demands from the PRC that the U. S. follow the legally non-binding Three Joint Communiques and the U. S. government's proclaimed One-China policy ( which differs from the PRC's One-China Policy ).

The Taiwan Relations Act does not require the U. S. to intervene militarily if the PRC attacks or invades Taiwan, and the U. S. has adopted a policy of " strategic ambiguity " in which the U. S. neither confirms nor denies that it would intervene in such a scenario.

Any information we have here in Taiwan is at your disposal ''.

For every person on Taiwan, there are sixty in Mainland China.

The armed forces of Taiwan are at a working strength of about 450,000, though a reserve potential twice that high is contemplated.

The psychological strategists in Taiwan stress the great sense of family, cultivated in China over thousands of years.

The military in Taiwan believe that the Communists have made two mistakes, which, together, may prove fatal.

The planners in Taiwan struck me as realistic men.

At a third stage in the modernization process are such countries as India, Brazil, the Philippines, and Taiwan, which are ready and committed to move into the stage of self-sustaining growth.

After the later establishment of the People's Republic of China and its adoption of Hanyu Pinyin, the use of Zhuyin today is limited, but it's still widely used in Taiwan where the Republic of China still governs.

The principal abalone farming regions are China, Taiwan, Japan, and Korea.

* 1972 – The Universal Postal Union decides to recognize the People's Republic of China as the only legitimate Chinese representative, effectively expelling the Republic of China administering Taiwan.

* Ailanthus altissima ( Tree of Heaven ) – northern and central mainland China, Taiwan, arguably the best known species.

* 1958 – Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.

* 1952 – The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty ( Treaty of Taipei ) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.

This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.

a 8 days ban from August 12, 1959 after the August 7 flood ( 八七水災 ), the last big flood before the 88 Taiwan Flood.

In 2007, the United States government agreed to sell 218 AIM-120C-7 missiles to Taiwan as part of a large arms sales package that also included 235 AGM-65G-2 Maverick missiles.

Other affected areas include the south eastern coast of China and Taiwan.

Burkina maintains diplomatic relations with the Republic of China ( usually referred to as " Taiwan ") instead of the People's Republic of China.

The SIG has local offices in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Beijing, China, Seoul, Korea, Tokyo, Japan and Malmö, Sweden.

Bubble tea, also known as pearl tea or boba tea, is a tea-based drink invented in tea shops in Taichung, Taiwan, during the 1980s.

Bubble tea came into existence in Taiwan, when the beverage was created during the 1980s.

An alternative origin is the Hanlin teahouse in Tainan, Taiwan, owned by Tu Tsong-he.

In May 2011, a food scandal broke out in Taiwan where DEHP ( a chemical plasticizer and potential carcinogen used to make plastic ) was found as a stabilizer in drinks and juice syrups.

In South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Malaysia, BCG was given at birth and again at age 12.

Admiral Chester Nimitz favored a more direct strategy of bypassing the Philippines, but seizing Okinawa and Taiwan as staging areas to an attack on the Chinese mainland, followed by the future invasion of Japan's southernmost islands.