Word: tachen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...securing and protecting Formosa and the Pescadores against armed attack, this authority to include the securing and protection of such related positions and territories of that area now in friendly hands." (Around the same time, the U.S. pressured Chiang into evacuating the distant-200 miles north of Formosa-Tachen Islands, which were quickly occupied by the Chinese Communists...
...inch of free territory. The mere fact that the two groups of islands are not included within the mandatory treaty area is not a reason for surrendering them. Furthermore, Kennedy has exhibited a strange reluctance to cite the perfectly analogous case of the Administration's withdrawal from the Tachen islands when they were under bombardment in the beginning...