Bashi channel-A strait with high frequency of strong winds and huge waves.

Bashi channel is located in the south of Taiwan Province Province, China, the north of the Philippines and the east of dongsha islands. Since ancient times, there have been many ships coming and going in this sea area, which is an important waterway from the South China Sea to the Pacific Ocean and an important international waterway between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean.

The sea area between Taiwan Province Island and Bataan Islands is customarily called bashi channel. It is said that the scenery here is beautiful, the wind is particularly strong, the frequency of strong winds and waves is particularly high, and typhoons often pass through here.

The origin of bashi channel's name has nothing to do with buses and cars, but with ships and wine. It is said that there is a sugarcane wine in Bataan Islands, and it is called Bashi in Ibaya. This kind of liquor, like China liquor, will get drunk if you drink too much. Because of the role of alcohol, people will be dizzy and emotionally unstable. When people are sailing in this strait between Bataan Islands and Taiwan Province Island, because of the strong sea breeze and huge waves in this area, the people on board are as dizzy and unstable as drinking sugarcane wine. Therefore, the strait between Taiwan Province Province Island and Bataan Islands has long been called bashi channel, and when translated into Chinese, it becomes bashi channel.

The width of bashi channel is about 150km, with slight differences in different regions. This area is more suitable for submarine activities. Therefore, the military strategic position is also extremely important.

The scope of bashi channel has always been controversial, but there is not much discussion. In a word, you only need to understand that there is a sea area about 370 kilometers wide between Taiwan Province Island in China and Luzon Island in the Philippines.

In this sea area, Batam Islands and Babuyan Islands divide this sea area into three parts, from north to south, which are customarily called Bashi Strait, Balintang Strait and Babuyan Strait. Perhaps because bashi channel is the widest and deepest of the three straits, and its geographical position and military strategic position are the most important, people are used to calling these three straits bashi channel.