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State Department Legal Advisor: The Legal Status of Taiwan
Memorandum
July 13, 1971
To: EA/ROC – Mr. Charles T. Sylvester
From: L/EA – Robert I. Starr
Subject: Legal Status of Taiwan
You have asked for a comprehensive memorandum analyzing the question of the legal status of Taiwan in terms suitable for Congressional presentation. Attached is a paper that should serve this purpose. It is drawn mainly from the February 3, 1961 Czyzak memorandum, and contains no sensitive information or reference to classified documents.
Concurrence: L – Mr. Salans
The "ASL" as the "Anti-TRA": China's Anti-secession Law and the impact on U.S. Relations with Taiwan.
Institute of European and
American Studies, Academia Sinica,
Taipei, Taiwan
By John J. Tkacik, Jr.
Beijing's "Anti-Secession Law" of March 14, 2005, marked the end of the tacit understanding that Washington and Beijing have shared since December 16, 1978, under which Beijing pretended to pursue a policy of peaceful unification while Washington pretended to pursue a one-China policy.
Taiwan's Missile Referendum
January 21, 2004
by John Tkacik, Jr. WEBMEMO #401
After years of military intimidation by Beijing, Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian has announced wording for a referendum designed to draw both domestic and international attention to China's missile threat to the democratic island. And he has succeeded.
The Bush Administration and Congress must preempt China's belligerence by:
Wen Jiabao and Zeng Qinghong: The Two Centers of China's Fourth Generation
BIOGRAPHIC ESSAY (1)
The Two Centers of China’s Fourth Generation:
Premier Wen Jiabao and Vice President Zeng Qinghong
By John Tkacik
May 2004
Pacific Pivot, Taiwan Fulcrum Maritime Taiwan and Power Transition in Asia
Pacific Pivot, Taiwan Fulcrum
Maritime Taiwan and Power Transition in Asia
U.S.-China: illusions of partnership
January 30, 2009
4:00 - Critical Issues in the Asia-Pacific Region
U.S.-China: illusions of partnership
By John J. Tkacik, Jr.
The central question for world peace in the 21st Century is “can we assume that China will be a partner for peace rather than an enabler of instability?”
The short answer is “I'm afraid not.” If global peace requires a stable international policy structure that encompasses the following goals:
On Taiwan: Nixon: “What In Hell is the Taiwan Independence Movement?”
Last week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken travelled to Beijing on a mission “to cool exploding tensions” (as the Associated Press puts it). The Secretary’s counterparts on the Chinese side aver — as they have for fifty years — that blame for exploding tensions is entirely with the Americans. And exploding tensions now, as always, center on only one issue — Taiwan.
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