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The fleet of 700 Persian ships then engaged the much smaller Athenian naval force under the command of Themistocles in the Strait of Salamis, but Xerxes was in for a surprise.
The views from the summit 426 m (396 ft) up are spectacular, particularly across the strait to Morocco, along the coast toward Estepona, and down the sheer east face of the Rock to the water holding areas (for desalination) and the beaches of Sandy Bay, Catalan Bay, and Eastern Beach.
The Los Angeles Times goes with the news that, after 1996's Taiwan Strait crisis, the Clinton administration quietly began forging an extensive military relationship with Taiwan.
Europe looks across the Strait of Gibraltar to Africa, with the Rif Mountains of Morocco dominating the horizon a mere 13 km (8 miles) away.
Saying it was unclear what he hoped to accomplish by ending his one China policy, the paper commented in an editorial that what he had done was "weaken the constructive ambiguity which has marked relations across the Taiwan Strait for two decades or more, and which has kept them essentially peaceful."