Second Taiwan Strait Crisis

Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
Traditional Chinese	八二三炮戰
Simplified Chinese	八二三炮战
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	bā èr sān pào zhàn
Bopomofo	ㄅㄚㄦˋ ㄙㄢㄆㄠˋ ㄓㄢˋ
Wade–Giles	Pa1-erh4-san1 P'ao4-chan4

Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
	Part of the Chinese Civil War and the Cold War
	; Taiwan Strait
Date	23 August – 2 December 1958 ; (3 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location	Taiwan Strait
Result	Both sides declared victory Status quo ante bellum
Belligerents
Republic of China; United States	People's Republic of China
Commanders and leaders
Chiang Kai-shek; Chiang Ching-kuo; Hu Lien; Ji Xingwen †; Zhao Jiaxiang †; Zhang Jie †; Dwight D. Eisenhower ; Nathan Farragut Twining; Wallace M. Beakley ; Benjamin O. Davis Jr.; Roland N. Smoot	Mao Zedong; Peng Dehuai; Ye Fei; Xu Xiangqian
Strength
192,000; Naval and air support	215,000
Casualties and losses
514 ROC troops killed and missing, 2,200 injured (including 440 dead and missing and 1,911 injured for the Army alone); Civilians: 80 killed, 221 injured; 1 Landing Ship Medium sunk, 1 Landing Ship Tank damaged in the naval battle of Dongding Island;	460 PRC troops killed and wounded ; ; Several ships sunk and several more damaged in the naval battle of Dongding Island; 31 fighter jets shot down;

The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). In this conflict, the PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China (in the Taiwan Strait) in an attempt to take control of Taiwan from the Chinese Nationalist Party, also known as the Kuomintang (KMT), and to probe the extent of the United States' defense of Taiwan's territory. A naval battle also took place around Dongding Island when the ROC Navy repelled an attempted amphibious landing by the PRC Navy.

Then U.S. Secretary of State Christian Herter reportedly described the conflict as the "first serious nuclear crisis".^[5]

^ "Anniversaire de la bataille de Kinmen : l'Unité nationale au cœur de la défense de Taiwan, selon Tsai Ing-wen". 24 August 2021. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.
^ Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai. Page 189. Published 2009
^ "The Meaning of the Taiwan Strait Crisis". www.airforcemag.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
^ 教育部重編國語辭典修訂本 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2019. 字詞【八二三炮戰】注音ㄅㄚㄦˋ ㄙㄢㄆㄠˋ ㄓㄢˋ 漢語拼音 bā èr sān pào zhàn
^ M.H. Halperin (December 1966). The 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis: A Documented History. Daniel Ellsberg. pp. i–xvii.

[1] "Anniversaire de la bataille de Kinmen : l'Unité nationale au cœur de la défense de Taiwan, selon Tsai Ing-wen". 24 August 2021. Archived from the original on 26 August 2021. Retrieved 26 August 2021.

[2] Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai. Page 189. Published 2009

[airforcemag.com-3] "The Meaning of the Taiwan Strait Crisis". www.airforcemag.com. Archived from the original on 27 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.

[4] 教育部重編國語辭典修訂本 (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Archived from the original on 7 August 2020. Retrieved 16 September 2019. 字詞【八二三炮戰】注音ㄅㄚㄦˋ ㄙㄢㄆㄠˋ ㄓㄢˋ 漢語拼音 bā èr sān pào zhàn

[:0-5] M.H. Halperin (December 1966). The 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis: A Documented History. Daniel Ellsberg. pp. i–xvii.

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