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The Taiwan Relations Act (TRA; Pub. L. 96–8, H.R. 2479, 93 Stat. 14, enacted April 10, 1979) is an act of the United States Congress.Since the formal recognition of the People's Republic of China, the Act has defined the officially substantial but non-diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Taiwan (Republic of China).
The United States upgraded its consulate in the capital, Kyiv, to embassy status on January 21, 1992. [1] In 2002, relations between the United States and Ukraine deteriorated after one of the recordings made during the Cassette Scandal revealed an alleged transfer of a sophisticated Ukrainian defense system to Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
This also prompted Taiwan to make Belarus and Ukraine the target of diplomatic breakthrough. [4] The U.S. asked Taiwan for $30 million in aid, and proposed to give half of it to Russia and half to Ukraine. Qian Fu and Chiang Hsiao Yen decided to provide aid in kind instead of direct money to the United States. Therefore, the final aid case was ...
During the height of the Cold War, Taiwan hosted U.S. military bases and the two had a Mutual Defence Treaty. In 1979, the United States severed official relations with the government in Taipei ...
The United States House of Representatives passed a concurrent resolution on May 16, 2016, giving the first formal wording for the Six Assurances by more or less directly adopting how the former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs John H. Holdridge expressed them in 1982 (which was delivered to Taiwan's President Chiang Ching-kuo by then-Director of the American ...
The US can do what it wants with Taiwan’s decommissioned HAWK anti-aircraft missiles, the island’s defence minister has said without ruling out their transfer to Ukraine.. HAWK is a medium ...
WASHINGTON/TAIPEI (Reuters) -The United States has approved a potential $2 billion arms sale package to Taiwan, the Pentagon said on Friday, including the delivery for the first time to the island ...
While Taiwan felt its international space shrinking, relations with the US saw major breakthroughs, including a phone call between Trump and Tsai, the passage of the Taiwan Travel Act, and cabinet-level meetings between the two countries. In order to disincentivize remaining countries to switch recognition away from Taiwan, and to allow the ...