Taiwan Straits : crisis in Asia and the role of the U.S. Navy
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Taiwan Straits : crisis in Asia and the role of the U.S. Navy
(Global flashpoints : a Scarecrow Press series)
Rowman & Littlefield, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226) and index
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In Taiwan Straits: Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy, historian Bruce Elleman surveys the situation that has led to the current tensions between China and Taiwan. Starting in 1949, the final phase of the civil war in China, which ended with Communist rule of the mainland and nationalist control of Taiwan, this work explores how the 100-mile wide passage of water, known as the Taiwan Strait has served as the geographic flashpoint between the two nations.
Even though U.S. Navy destroyers have patrolled this body of water from 1950 to 1979, it has seen four crises-1954-55, 1958, 1962, and, after the withdrawal of the U.S. Navy, 1995-96-that threatened to push Taiwan and China to the brink of war. Notwithstanding the role of the United States in defusing cross-strait tensions for some three decades and the cold peace that has settled in since then, the Taiwan Strait continues to be a major source of anxiety for the region and the world.
Taiwan Straits: Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy traces the evolution of this tension between the two nations, details the history of the crises between them, and brings this story forward into the present by considering continuing sources of conflict, present diplomatic efforts by the aggrieved nations, and other key interests-from the United States and Europe to other regional powers-and future possible outcomes in the ongoing struggle between China and Taiwan relations. Simply written and cogently argued, it is the ideal source for military personnel, diplomats, and scholars and student of the modern Far East.
Table of Contents
List of Maps, Figures, and Photographs
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Taiwan Strait
Chapter 1: The Historical Origins of the "Two China" Problem
Chapter 2: The Two Chinas, the Offshore Islands, and the Korean War
Chapter 3: The U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Taiwan Patrol Force
Chapter 4: Debates on the U.S. China Policy
Chapter 5: The First Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954-55
Chapter 6: American Military and Financial Support for the Nationalists
Chapter 7: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1958
Chapter 8: The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and Sino-American Rapprochement
Chapter 9: PRC Economic Development, Tiananmen, and the
Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1995-96
Chapter 10: Beijing-Taipei Cross-Strait Tensions and Cooperation
Conclusion: The Taiwan Strait Challenge
Appendix A: Further Reading
Appendix B: Timeline of Major Events in the Taiwan Strait
Appendix C: U.S.-ROC Mutual Defense Treaty, 2 December 1954 (ratified 1955)
Appendix D: Formosa Resolution, 1955
Appendix E: Shanghai Communique, 28 February 1972
Appendix F: Joint Communique on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the
People's Republic of China and the United States of America, 16 December 1978
Appendix G: Taiwan Relations Act, 10 April 1979
Appendix H: Joint Communique on the Question of Arms Sales to Taiwan, 17 August 1982
Appendix I: Anti-Secession Law adopted by NPC, 14 March 2005
Appendix J: Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, 29 June 2010
List of Acronyms
Bibliography
About the Author
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