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A farewell to arms? US security relations with Taiwan and the prospects for stability in the Taiwan Strait
Chen, Ping-Kuei Kastner, Scott Reed, William
Chen, Ping-Kuei
Kastner, Scott
Reed, William
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,”...
Keywords
United States, Taiwan, China, history, relations
Date
2017
Type
Book chapter
Journal
Book
Taiwan and China : Fitful embrace
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Issue
Page Range
221-238
Article Number
ACU Department
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Open Access Status
Open access
License
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
File Access
Open
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© 2017 University of California Press
This book chapter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
This book chapter is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)