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US Relations with Nationalist China, 1943-1960
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2022
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Locked in a common fight against Imperial Japan, the United States and Nationalist China became allies, but significant fissures in their relationship soon developed. Neither ally would accommodate each other’s core interests in strategies necessary to win the war. This disconnect continued after Japan’s surrender, as the United States pressed Chinese Nationalists and Communists to join a coalition government that neither wanted. During the civil war, the United States supported the Nationalists, but never to the degree they thought mattered. After the Communist triumph, America served its national security and anti-Communism, by helping the Nationalists defend Taiwan, but hedged against assisting Chiang Kai-shek to reconquer the mainland. Twice in the 1950’s tensions in the Taiwan Strait nearly expanded into nuclear conflict.
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2022
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-3114-5
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978-1-7936-3115-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
408
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Dedication No access
Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Chapter 1: A Fraught Partnership No access Pages 9 - 38
Chapter 2: An Impossible Coalition No access Pages 39 - 80
Chapter 3: Estrangement and a Lifeline No access Pages 81 - 140
Chapter 4: 1953—A New Administration Arrives in Washington No access Pages 141 - 10
Chapter 5: Rising Tensions in the Strait No access Pages 161 - 194
Chapter 6: Eisenhower Goes to Congress No access Pages 195 - 236
Chapter 7: The Formosa Resolution: Floor Proceedings No access Pages 237 - 262
Chapter 8: After the Resolution, a Treaty No access Pages 263 - 286
Chapter 9: Defend or Abandon Quemoy and Matsu No access Pages 287 - 322
Chapter 10: A Crisis Renewed No access Pages 323 - 348
