Taiwan Straits
Subtitle: crisis in Asia and the role of the U.S. Navy
By: Bruce A. Elleman
Series: Global flashpoints, a series on foreign policy and international security issues; Global flashpoints
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780810888890
Subjects: United States; Strategic aspects; United States. Navy. Fleet, 7th; Foreign relations
Description: Taiwan Straits: Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy traces the evolution of the tension between China and Taiwan. It details the history of the crises between them and brings this story forward into the present by considering continuing sources of conflict, present diplomatic efforts by the aggrieved nations and other key interests{u2014}from the United States and Europe to other regional powers{u2014}and future possible outcomes in the ongoing struggle between China and Taiwan relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-226) and index.
Table of contents: title: The historical origins of the "two China" problem; title: The two Chinas, the offshore islands, and the Korean War; title: The U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Taiwan Patrol Force; title: Debates on the U.S. China policy; title: The First Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954-55; title: American military and financial support for the nationalists; title: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1958; title: The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and Sino-American rapprochement; title: PRC economic development, Tiananmen, and the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1995-96; title: Beijing-Taipei cross-strait tensions and cooperation; title: Conclusion: the Taiwan Strait challenge.