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First Taiwan Strait Crisis
Part of the Chinese Civil War and the Cold War

Chinese soldiers load artillery aboard an LCM as ships at anchor await their arrival, 6 February 1955.
Date3 September 1954 – 1 May 1955
(7 months and 4 weeks)
Location
Taiwan Strait
Result

Ceasefire; major escalation avoided

  • The PRC takes control of the Yijiangshan and Dachen Islands
  • The ROC and US navies evacuate military personnel and civilians from the Dachen Islands
  • Formosa Resolution of 1955 and Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty between the ROC and US
Belligerents
First Taiwan Strait Crisis Republic of China
First Taiwan Strait Crisis United States		 First Taiwan Strait Crisis People's Republic of China
Commanders and leaders
First Taiwan Strait Crisis Chiang Kai-shek
First Taiwan Strait Crisis Liu Yuzhang
First Taiwan Strait Crisis Dwight D. Eisenhower		 First Taiwan Strait Crisis Mao Zedong
First Taiwan Strait Crisis Zhou Enlai
First Taiwan Strait Crisis Peng Dehuai
First Taiwan Strait Crisis Xu Xiangqian
Casualties and losses
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 519 killed[1]
First Taiwan Strait Crisis 2 killed[2]		 First Taiwan Strait Crisis 393 killed[1]

The First Taiwan Strait Crisis (also known as the Formosa Crisis, the 1954–1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis, the Offshore Islands Crisis, the Quemoy-Matsu Crisis, and the 1955 Taiwan Strait Crisis) was a brief armed conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) in Taiwan. The conflict focused on several groups of islands in the Taiwan Strait that were held by the ROC but were located only a few miles from mainland China.

The crisis began when the PRC initiated heavy bombardment on the ROC-held island of Kinmen (Quemoy) in September 1954. Shelling was subsequently extended to the Matsu and Tachen (Dachen) islands. In response, the United States and the ROC agreed to the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty in December 1954. In January 1955, the PRC seized the Yijiangshan Islands. Later that month, the Formosa Resolution was approved by both houses of the U.S. Congress, authorizing President Dwight D. Eisenhower to defend the ROC and its possessions. The U.S. Navy then assisted the Nationalists in evacuating from the Tachen Islands.

The crisis de-escalated in April 1955 after Premier Zhou Enlai articulated the PRC's intention to negotiate with the United States at the Bandung Conference, and in May 1955 the People's Liberation Army ceased shelling Kinmen and Matsu. Ambassadorial-level discussions between China and the U.S. began in Geneva in August 1955. The fundamental issues of the conflict remained unresolved, which led to a new crisis three years later.

  1. ^ a b Han Cheung (12 January 2020). "Taiwan in Time: Yijiangshan: Moving the Americans to action?". Taipei Times. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Taipei Times was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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