U.S. Policy Documents on China (Volume 2) ()

Author: Tao Wenzhao, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: Volume 1 of "U.S. Policy Documents on China" primarily covers the evolution of U.S. policy toward Taiwan from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, when the U.S. and the Kuomintang signed the Mutual Defense Treaty. It clearly shows how the U.S. government shifted from initially refraining from interfering with the liberation of Taiwan to promoting the "undefined status" of Taiwan, to demanding the Kuomintang abandon coastal islands and focus solely on Taiwan and Penghu, aiming to permanently separate Taiwan from the mainland. Volume 2 of "U.S. Policy Documents on China" primarily covers the evolution of U.S. policy toward Taiwan from 1956 to late 1958, as well as the formation of U.S. policy at the Geneva Conference and the Bandung Conference regarding the issue of Indochina.