Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954–1958

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 666-678
Author(s):  
Geoffrey C. Gunn
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Taiwan Strait Crisis ◽  
The Taiwan Strait

Inside the Asian Cold War Intrigues: Revisiting the Taiwan Strait crises

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (6) ◽  
pp. 2109-2136
Author(s):  
RUPING XIAO ◽  
HSIAO-TING LIN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Communist China ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Foreign Ministry ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article revisits the issue of the offshore islands in the Taiwan Strait during the Cold War. Benefitting from archival materials only recently made available, specifically Chiang Kai-shek's personal diaries, CIA declassified materials, Taiwanese Foreign Ministry files, and rare publications from the Contemporary Taiwan Collection at the Library of the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo, this research examines the cloud of suspicion surrounding the secret contacts between Taipei and Beijing leading up to and during the 1958 offshore islands crisis, elucidating how such a political tête-à-tête, and the resultant tacit consensus over the status of the islands, gradually brought about an end to the conflict between Taiwan and Communist China. In hindsight, the crises over the offshore islands along China's southeast coast momentarily brought the United States closer to war with Communist China, while putting the relationship between Taipei and Washington to a serious test. The end result, however, was that, while these isles were technically embedded in the unfinished civil war between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists, they provided, ironically, an opportunity for secret communications and, ultimately, a kind of détente between the two supposedly deadly enemies across the Taiwan Strait. A close examination of the details of these crises, along with their attendant military, political, and diplomatic complexities, reveals an amazing amount of political intrigue at both the local and international levels that has not been fully realized until now.

scholarly journals Taiwanese Factor In Modern American-Chinese Relations

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
S. Makhammaduly ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
The Political ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Current State ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
Analytical Centers

The article analyzes the historical foundations, current state, and prospects of the development of dialogue between the shores of the Taiwan Strait. The research of US analytical centers on the prospects of the development of US-Chinese relations and the «Taiwan Question» is examined. Over the decades of virtually separate development, with the serious influence of the United States, radical changes have taken place in the political culture of the citizens of the Republic of China. The so-called “Taiwanese mentality” is being formed on the island, and the idea of Taiwan’s sovereignty is becoming more and more popular.

The Benefits of Communist Alliance Coordination and the Continuing Costs of U.S. Alliance Formation, 1951–56

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Christensen
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Chinese Foreign Policy ◽  
Kim Il Sung ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Korean War ◽  
Taiwan Strait Crisis ◽  
Mixed Blessing ◽  
The Taiwan Strait

This chapter examines the mixed blessing of enhanced communist coordination during the mid-1950s. During this period, a relatively well-coordinated and organized communist alliance allowed for more moderation and clearer signaling during the negotiations that ended fighting in the Korean War and the conflict in Indochina. The chapter considers the United States' formation of regional alliances and how the Taiwan Strait crisis erupted in 1954. It shows how a relatively unified allied position on Southeast Asia in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China (PRC) served as a restraint on the most aggressive members of the alliance, the local communists involved in civil wars: Kim Il-sung and Ho Chi Minh. Aside from Beijing's nationalistic reaction in the Taiwan Strait, Chinese foreign policy would be relatively moderate in the middle 1950s and fully in tune with Soviet designs for a breathing spell in the Cold War.

Protests and China pressure weaken Taiwan government

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Pension Reform ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Party Leaders ◽  
Opposition Party ◽  
Grassroots Support ◽  
The Taiwan Strait

Subject Political and foreign policy outlook for Taiwan. Significance The Kuomintang, Taiwan's main opposition party, has seized on stalled cross-Strait relations and domestic discontent with Taiwan's president, Tsai Ing-wen, to re-energise itself after being trounced in January's presidential contest. Kuomintang mayors have sought to jump-start cross-Strait relations by conducting diplomacy in visits to China, and party leaders have attempted to harness public anger over pension reform to damage the president. Impacts Beijing will be reluctant to reward Tsai in the absence of official talks on further cross-Strait economic deals. The United States will press Tsai to resume official negotiations with China to avoid destabilising the Taiwan Strait. The Kuomintang will begin to rebuild grassroots support, but its current leader, Hung Hsiu-chu, will remain divisive. Beijing will use dropping numbers of cross-Strait tourists as a lever to press Taipei to resume cross-Strait talks.

ANZUS Pacific Security pact

1960 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-345
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Secretary Of State ◽  
The World ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
Taiwan Area

The Council of the ANZUS Pacific Security Pact met in Washington on October 26, 1959. New Zealand was represented by Prime Minister Walter Nash; Australia by Minister for External Affairs Richard G. Casey; and the United States by Secretary of State Christian Herter. The representatives of the three member nations voiced their concern that the destructive violence in Asia of the Chinese Communists and their threat of a “liberating” war in the Taiwan Strait should continue to pose a serious threat to the peace of the world; they reiterated their conviction in this context that any resort to force of arms by the Chinese Communists in the Taiwan area or elsewhere could only be regarded as an international problem affecting the stability of the region.

Helpful Allies, Interfering Neighbours: World opinion and China in the 1950s

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 204-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
YANG HUEI PANG
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Active Management ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Taiwan Strait Crisis ◽  
World Opinion

AbstractIn the aftermath of the Korean War, the People's Republic of China was effectively an international pariah. Accounts of this period in Chinese textbooks emphasize how the Chinese turned this around, either during the Geneva Conference or the Bandung Conference, through deft planning and enterprise. Yet few pay any attention to how such manipulation of world opinion became increasingly difficult for Beijing after that initial success. One outcome of China's public relations campaign meant friendly Afro-Asia leaders voiced their opinions, in alarming numbers, to their Chinese counterparts regarding issues such as Asian security, mainland China's economic development, and the Taiwan problem. Indeed, recently declassified Chinese Foreign Affairs archive documents demonstrate that China tried to marshal such non-Soviet bloc opinions to its advantage during the first Taiwan Strait crisis (1955). Chinese efforts were successful in that there was no lack of volunteers to air dissent with American foreign policy. But these new allies also wished to mediate between the United States and the Republic of China, on the one side, and mainland China on the other. Moreover, such efforts were often at variance with China's domestic and strategic outlook in the region. China thus had to embark upon an active ‘management’ of disparate world opinions, which was an entirely new endeavour. Although China tried to provide a sanitized ‘script’ for its new friends, most had their own ideas. By the time of the second Taiwan Strait crisis (1958), the volume of third party interference had grown. Overwhelmed by such international attention, China responded by openly rejecting unwelcome mediation efforts and demanded outright condemnation of the United States. Thus, ironically, with its growing prominence on the international stage, China found itself unbearably weighted down by the burden of world opinion, a position previously occupied by the United States.

scholarly journals Intra-Asian infrastructures of Chinese birth tourism: agencies’ operations in China and Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean H. Wang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
The United States ◽  
Taiwan Strait ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Ethnic Chinese ◽  
The Taiwan Strait ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

This chapter focuses on the development of the Chinese birth tourism industry and its intra-Asian operations. It discusses Chinese birth tourism away from the United States. The chapter focuses on existing regional linkages, such as long-standing but small-scale informal birth tourism from Taiwan and a brief surge of Chinese birth tourism to Hong Kong in the 2000s, that buttress China–United States birth tourism networks. It also focuses on birth tourism agencies' operations in China and Taiwan. The chapter examines the emerging literature by providing empirics on Chinese birth tourism agencies' operations and, to a lesser extent, prospective birth tourists' experiences at these agencies. The chapter focuses on intra-Asian infrastructures of contemporary Chinese birth tourism industry, describing separately for birth agencies in China and Taiwan their modes of recruitment, clientele demographics and scales of operations. It demonstrates, contemporary ethnic Chinese birth tourism to the United States is overwhelmingly commercialised and draws its clientele from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

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