Nuclear Close Call - The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis

Podcast: The War Office · The Operations Room

Opublikowano: 2026-10-27

In 1958, the 2nd Taiwan Strait Crisis broke out between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). Cold War tensions had increased an already tense situation between the PRC, based on the Chinese mainland, and the ROC, in Taiwan. As the Communists gained the upper hand in the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Nationalists, often called the Kuomintang, retreated to the island of Taiwan in late-1949. The so-called Two-Chinas remained in conflict for decades. The crisis of 1958 was not the first time the two sides came into conflict in the Taiwan Strait...