A farewell to arms? US security relations with Taiwan and the prospects for stability in the Taiwan Strait

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Chen, Ping-Kuei, Kastner, Scott and Reed, William. (2017). A farewell to arms? US security relations with Taiwan and the prospects for stability in the Taiwan Strait. In In Dittmer, Lowell (Ed.). Taiwan and China : Fitful embrace pp. 221 - 238 University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520968707-013
AuthorsChen, Ping-Kuei, Kastner, Scott and Reed, William
EditorsDittmer, Lowell
Abstract

Continued US security ties with Taiwan, and in particular US weapons sales to the island, have long been a source of tension in the US-China relationship. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) found it unacceptable that Washington insisted on selling weapons to Taiwan even after US-PRC normalization in 1979; the Taiwan Relations Act, which contained explicit references to continued US arms sales to Taiwan, further angered Chinese leaders.¹ Washington agreed in a 1982 communiqué “to reduce gradually its sale of arms to Taiwan” and promised that future arms sales to Taiwan “would not exceed, either in qualitative or quantitative terms,”...

KeywordsUnited States; Taiwan; China; history ; relations
Page range221 - 238
Year01 Jan 2017
Book titleTaiwan and China : Fitful embrace
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Place of publicationUnited States
Edition1
ISBN978-0-520-96870-7
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520968707-013
Web address (URL)https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1w76wpm.15
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Online31 Dec 2020
Print2017
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Deposited07 Jun 2024
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