The Future of United States, China, and Taiwan Relations

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   • Cheng-yi Lin, Tom Chou

   Pages 1-12

3. Taiwan’s Political Development and U.S.-China Relations

   • Jean-Pierre Cabestan

   Pages 13-28

4. The “ASL” as the “Anti-TRA”: The Impact of China’s Anti-Secession Law on U.S. Relations with Taiwan

   • John J. Tkacik Jr.

   Pages 29-52

5. The TRA, Cross-Strait Relations, and Sino-U.S. Relations: Searching for Cross-Strait Stability

   • Richard W. Hu

   Pages 53-69

6. A Status Quo with Different Interpretations: Taiwan, China, the United States, and Security in the Taiwan Strait

   • Cheng-yi Lin

   Pages 71-100

7. Lobbying for a “U.S.-Taiwan FTA” in the U.S. Congress: Which “Fast Track”? What Target?

   • David W. F. Huang

   Pages 101-120

8. The United States as a Balancer in Cross-Strait Relations, 2000–2008

   • Jaushieh Joseph Wu

   Pages 121-147

9. The U.S.-China-Taiwan Relationship: New Circumstances, Persistent Challenges

   • Denny Roy

   Pages 149-165

10. Taiwan’s Participation in the World Health Organization: The U.S. “Facilitator” Role

    • Jaw-ling Joanne Chang

    Pages 167-187

11. Japan’s Perspective on U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations

    • Yoshifumi Nakai

    Pages 189-208

12. U.S. Debates About Taiwan’s Security, 1979–2009

    • Michael Pillsbury

    Pages 209-242

13. Back Matter

    Pages 243-245

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Relations across the Taiwan Strait were unstable for decades before May 2008. Several acknowledged "crises" raised the possibility of war between China and the US and/or Taiwan and at times political disputes wracked the US-Taiwan relationship. Nevertheless, the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) of 1979 helped maintain peace by deterring coercive actions by China against the island.

• health
• organization
• participation
• stability

"Taiwan has effective domestic and Westphalian/Vattellian sovereignty and limited international legal sovereignty in the form of recognition from a relatively small number of states. The lack of formal recognition, however, has not prevented other countries from conducting what are, in fact, diplomatic relations with Taiwan. The U.S.-Taiwan Relations Act, for instance, essentially creates an embassy, the American Institute in Taiwan, without calling it an embassy. The Act states that Taiwan is to be treated in the same way as foreign countries, nation states, and similar entities." - from the Foreword by Stephen Krasner, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

• Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

  Cheng-yi Lin

• East-West Center, Honolulu, USA

  Denny Roy

CHENG-YI LIN Executive Director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS) and Research Fellow in the Institute of European and American Studies at Academia Sinica in Taiwan

DENNY ROY Senior Fellow in the Research Program at the East-West Center, Hawaii

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