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An Uncertain Relationship: The United States, Taiwan and the Taiwan Relations Act

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2001

Extract

The United States has separate mutual security treaties with Japan and the Republic of Korea which provide for stationing American forces and have established procedures for close co-operation. These alliances constitute the keystone of the American security position in East Asia and, possibly, the trigger for future involvement in the area.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© School of Oriental and African Studies, 2001

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Footnotes

The authors wish to thank Martha Johnson and Nada Tomisova for their research assistance. Special thanks to Nancy Hearst of the Fairbank Center at Harvard University who provided her usual perceptive editorial and critical input.