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Defending far-off Taiwan and our allies seems to many like yet another foolish military misadventure for our country. But it is not. Why Protecting Taiwan Really Matters to the U.S.
Leader of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1960.. The Formosa Resolution of 1955 was a joint resolution passed by the U.S. Senate and signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 29, 1955, [1] to counteract the threat of an invasion of Taiwan (Republic of China) by the People's Republic of China (PRC).
The annual trade volume between South Korea and Taiwan is around US$30 billion, with semiconductor products have been the largest item in the trade over the past few years. As of April 2016, the total amount of mutual investments between the two sides reached around US$2.4 billion in areas such as communication, consumer products, finance ...
Post-1979, the U.S. relationship with Taiwan has been governed by the Taiwan Relations Act, which gives a legal basis to provide the Chinese-claimed island with the means to defend itself, but ...
Even more important of course is that it has become a close ally of the United States. ... in its own defense and not just assuming that the U.S. will defend Taiwan if it gets into trouble ...
Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has denied the reports saying "In the development of our submarines there has never been, there is not now and will never be any contact with North Korea; assistance is all provided by important countries in Europe and the United States." [9] North Korea kidnapped a Taiwanese woman named Shen Jing-yu from ...
For decades, American leaders have deliberately avoided a giving a clear answer on whether the U.S. would use military force to stop a potential Chinese invasion.
The United States Department of Defense in a 2011 report stated that the primary mission of the PRC military is a possible military conflict with Taiwan, including also possible US military assistance. Although the risk of a crisis in the short-term is low, in the absence of new political developments, Taiwan will likely dominate future ...