List of wars involving Taiwan

This is a list of wars involving Taiwan.

Taiwan has been ruled by various regimes throughout its history.

War	Combatant 1	Combatant 2	Result
Japanese colonial rule (1895–1945)
Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)	Republic of Formosa Local militias	Empire of Japan	Japanese victory Collapse of the Republic of Formosa 5-month insurgency Annexation of Taiwan by Japan
Beipu uprising (1907)	Hakka Saisiyat	Japan	Japanese victory
Tapani incident (1915)	Da Ming Cibeiguo [zh] Han Taiwanese Taiwanese aborigines	Empire of Japan	Japanese victory
Musha Incident (1930)	Tkdaya^[1]	Empire of Japan Toda Truku^[1] (Taroko)	Japanese victory
Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)	China Kuomintang Chinese Communist Party	Japan Manchukuo Mengjiang Wang Jingwei regime	Chinese victory China recovers territories lost to Japan since the Treaty of Shimonoseki
Republic of China (1945–present)
Chinese Civil War (second phase) (1945–1949)	1945–1949: Republic of China Kuomintang Republic of China Armed Forces	1945–1949: Yan'an Soviet People's Republic of China (1949) Chinese Communist Party People's Liberation Army	Communist victory Communist control of mainland China Proclamation of the People's Republic of China Retreat of the government of the Republic of China to Taiwan
First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–1955)	Republic of China United States	People's Republic of China	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
China–Burma border campaign (1960–1961)	PRC Burma	ROC	Defeat Kuomintang expelled from Burma
Second Taiwan Strait Crisis (1958)	Republic of China United States	People's Republic of China	Ceasefire Successful military defence of Kinmen by the ROC Status quo ante bellum
Communist insurgency in Thailand (1965–1983)	Thailand Royal Thai Armed Forces Royal Thai Police Border Patrol Police Volunteer Defense Corps Thahan Phran Internal Security Operations Command Village Scouts Nawaphon Red Gaurs Kingdom of Laos (until 1975) ROC 93rd Division^[2] Malaysia^[3]^[4] Supported by: United States Shan United Revolutionary Army^[5] Karen National Union^[6]	Communist Party of Thailand People's Liberation Army of Thailand Federation of Farmers and Workers National Student Center of Thailand Ethnic groups, especially the Hmong Pathet Lao Malayan Communist Party^[7] Communist Party of Burma^[8] Supported by: Khmer Rouge (until 1978) People's Republic of Kampuchea (since 1979) People's Republic of China (until 1980) North Vietnam	Thai government victory Amnesty declared on 23 April 1980 by the Thai government Order 66/2523 signed by Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda Communist insurgency declines and ends in 1983
Third Taiwan Strait Crisis (1995–1996)	Republic of China United States (naval support)	People's Republic of China	Inconclusive Ceasefire

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