Strait talk
Subtitle: United States-Taiwan relations and the crisis with China
By: Nancy Bernkopf Tucker.
Publisher: Harvard University Press; Brand: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780674031876
Subjects: United States -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan; Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- China; China -- Foreign relations -- United States; Taiwan -- Foreign relations -- China; China -- Foreign relations -- Taiwan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Landscape and memory in the context of the Cold War; title: The origins of strategic ambiguity; title: Detente; title: Taiwan expendable?; title: Survival; title: Ford's tribulations; title: Collapse and reprieve; title: Moral imperatives, military challenges; title: Derecognition; title: Final act; title: The Taiwan Relations Act; title: Recognizing your friends and enemies; title: The Reagan difference; title: American assurances; title: The end of the Cold War; title: Shifting ground; title: Search for a new world order; title: Change and continuity; title: Taiwan Strait crisis; title: Setting the record straight; title: War against terrorism; title: The influence of democracy; title: The uses of adversity.