US Taiwan Strait Policy : : The Origins of Strategic Ambiguity / / Dean P. Chen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Chen, Dean P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; 1 U.S. Interests in Taiwan --; 2 U.S.-China-Taiwan Relations from Nixon to Obama --; 3 Wilson’s Vision for an Open China --; 4 Freeing Taiwan from Communist Domination --; 5 The Inception of Strategic Ambiguity --; 6 The Future of U.S. Policy in the Taiwan Strait --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the Book
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781935049845; 9783110784251
• DOI: 10.1515/9781935049845
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dean P. Chen.

Why did the Truman administration reject a pragmatic approach to the Taiwan Strait conflict--recognizing Beijing and severing ties with Taipei--and instead choose the path of strategic ambiguity? Dean Chen sheds light on current US policy by exploring the thoughts and deliberations of President Truman and his top advisers, among them Dean Acheson, John Foster Dulles, Livingston Merchant, and Dean Rusk. Chen also highlights the very unambiguous, and continuing, liberal aims of US Taiwan policy.