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Should the United States Abandon Taiwan?

2011; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 34; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/0163660x.2011.609128

1530-9177

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Bonnie S. Glaser,

Hong Kong and Taiwan Politics

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Bill Owens, "America must start treating China as a friend," Financial Times, November 17, 2009, http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/69241506-d3b2-11de-8caf-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1RXebUtOH; "A Way Ahead with China," Miller Center for Public Affairs, University of Virginia, 2011; Charles Glaser, "Will China's Rise Lead to War?: Why Realism Does Not Mean Pessimism," Foreign Affairs 90, no. 2 (March/April 2011); Bruce Gilley, "Not So Dire Straits," Foreign Affairs 89, no.1 (January/February 2010): pp. 44-60, with responses by Vance Chang, "Taipei Is Not Helsinki" and Hans Mouritzen, "The Difficult Art of Finlandization," Foreign Affairs 89, no. 3 (May/June 2010): pp. 128-133, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/66403/vance-chang-hans-mouritzen-and-bruce-gilley/to-the-finland-station?page=show 2. Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, "Taiwan Expendable? Nixon and Kissinger Go to China," The Journal of American History 92, no. 1 (June 2005): pp. 109-135. 3. Dai Bingguo, "Stick to the Path of Peaceful Development," Beijing Review, no. 51, December 23, 2010, http://www.bjreview.com.cn/quotes/txt/2010-12/27/content_320120.htm 4. "U.S.-China Joint Statement," Office of the Press Secretary, The White House, November 17, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/us-china-joint-statement 5. Glaser, "Will China's Rise Lead to War?" pp. 87-88. 6. "Taiwan Relations Act," Public Law 96-8, 96th Congress, January 1, 1979, http://www.ait.org.tw/en/taiwan-relations-act.html. There are several versions of the Six Assurances. For the most accurate, see http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/10/president-reagans-six-assurances-to-taiwan-and-their-meaning-today 7. On the F-16 issue in 1992, see Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Strait Talk (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. 181-192. 8. Senator Robert Menendez, Letter to President Obama, May 26, 2011, http://menendez.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/?id=07c1ba2e-c59d-4fff-b14d-1d6834b3a19d; Bob Cox, "For Lockheed Martin's F16, a dwindling list of likely buyers," Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 29, 2011, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/05/29/114949/for-lockheed-martins-f16-a-dwindling.html 9. Owens, "America must start treating China as a friend." 10. "A Way Ahead with China." Others among the signatories were Admiral Timothy J. Keating (USN, ret.), former Commander, U.S. Pacific Command, and James Shinn, former National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs. 11. Glaser, "Will China's Rise Lead to War?" pp. 80-91. 12. Nadia Tsao, "Rohrabacher to leave Taiwan Caucus position," Taipei Times, March 15, 2009, http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2009/03/15/2003438534 13. Kerry Dumbaugh, "Underlying Strains in Taiwan-U.S. Political Relations," CRS Report for Congress, renowned RL33684, April 20, 2007, pp. 17-19, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33684.pdf 14. Senator James M. Inhofe, Letter to President Obama, March 30, 2009, http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.JimsJournal&ContentRecord_id=58cacfb0-802a-23ad-4d53-3424fdfc0393&Region_id=&Issue_id= 15. Josh Rogin, "Senate Taiwan Caucus resurfaces in time for Hu visit," ForeignPolicy.com, January 14, 2011, http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/01/14/senate_taiwan_caucus_resurfaces_in_time_for_hu_visit 16. Robert Sutter, "Taiwan's Future: Narrowing Straits," National Bureau of Asian Research Analysis, May 2011; Gilley, "Not So Dire Straits." 17. Office of the Secretary of Defense, Annual Report to Congress: Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China (Washington, D.C., 2010), p. I, http://www.defense.gov/pubs/pdfs/2010_CMPR_Final.pdf 18. "Media Availability with Secretary Gates en route to Singapore," June 2, 2011, http://www.defense.gov/transcripts/transcript.aspx?transcriptid=4830 19. "ECFA 'early harvest' list tariff cuts come into effect," Taipei Times, January 2, 2011, http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2011/01/02/2003492456 20. "Top U.S. Trade Partners," International Trade Administration, http://www.trade.gov/mas/ian/build/groups/public/@tg_ian/documents/webcontent/tg_ian_003364.pdf 21. "The World Competitive Scoreboard 2011," IMD World Competitiveness Yearbook 2011, http://www.imd.org/research/publications/wcy/upload/scoreboard.pdf 22. "Taiwan Profile–Economy and Trade," U.S.-Taiwan Business Council, http://www.us-taiwan.org/taiwan.html; "2011 Taiwan White Paper," American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei, May 2011, p. 70, http://www.amcham.com.tw/index2.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=813&Itemid=377 23. Charles Glaser, "Disengaging From Taiwan: Should Washington Continue Its Alliance With Taipei?–Glaser Replies," Foreign Affairs 90, no. 4 (July/August 2011): p. 182. Additional informationNotes on contributorsNancy Bernkopf TuckerNancy Bernkopf Tucker is Professor of History at Georgetown University and at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. She also is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the author of Strait TalkBonnie GlaserBonnie Glaser is a Senior Fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS and also a Senior Associate with the CSIS Pacific Forum