Task: Text Simplification
Input (English): the taiwan strait or formosa strait is a 180-km-wide -lrb- 111.85-mile-wide -rrb- strait between mainland china and taiwan.
Output (English): the taiwan strait , or formosa strait , is a 180-km-wide -lrb- 111.85-mile-wide -rrb- waterway between mainland china and taiwan.