Written by the former chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan, this book sheds new light on key topics in the history of U.S.-Taiwan relations. It fills an important gap in our understanding of how the U.S. government addressed Taiwan and the Taiwan Strait issue from the early 1940s to the present.
Written by the former chairman and managing director of the American Institute in Taiwan (the de facto American embassy), this book sheds new light on key topics in the history of US-Taiwan relations.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Wartime Decision to Return Taiwan to China; Chapter 3 Difficult Dilemmas; Chapter 4 The Status of the ROC and Taiwan, 1950-1972; Chapter 5 The "Sacred Texts" of United States-China-Taiwan Relations; Chapter 6 Congress Gets into the Taiwan Human Rights Act; Chapter 7 Taiwan Policy Making Since Tiananmen; Chapter 8 Epilogue;