Type of Credit: Elective
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This is a graduate seminar intended for students in the International Master’s and Doctoral Programs in Asia-Pacific Studies. It will provide an analytic history of Taiwan’s relationship with the United States from the relocation of the Republican government from the mainland to Taiwan in the late 1940s to the present. The course will examine several recurring themes in that relationship, including Taiwan's sense of disappointment, or even betrayal, by the United States, particularly as Washington redefined its China policy in ways that had major impacts on Taiwan's interests, and America’s dissatisfaction with Taiwan's domestic political system and its security posture toward the mainland. We will also explore how the evolution of China's efforts to promote unification with Taiwan have affected both Taiwanese and American perceptions of China and cross-Strait relations.
能力項目說明
Provide policy relevant of US-Taiwan relations
Employ political science and international relations frameworks to analyze Taiwan’s external politics
Enable students to gain a better understanding of the complex relationship between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait
Engage with the academic literature on US-Taiwan relationship development
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Schedule and readings
George H. Kerr, Formosa Betrayed (1965).
Lin Hsiao-ting, “The Accidental State: The Making of Taiwan,” Hoover Digest (Summer 2016).
September 29 NO CLASS: Mid-Autumn Festival
Russell D. Buhite, “‘Major Interests’: American Policy toward China, Taiwan, and Korea, 1945-1950,” Pacific Historical Review, 47 (1978), pp. 425-451.
Dean Acheson, “Speech on the Far East (excerpts),” National Press Club, January 12, 1950.
Shannon Tiezzi, “How Eisenhower Saved Taiwan,” The Diplomat, July 29, 2015.
Leonard H. D. Gordon, “United States Opposition to Use of Force in the Taiwan Strait, 1954-1962,” Journal of American History (1985), pp. 637-660.
Kenneth T. Young, “Impasse over the Renunciation of Force and over Taiwan,” in
Negotiating With the Chinese Communists: The United States Experience, 1953-1967, ch. 4.
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, “John Foster Dulles and the Taiwan Roots of the Two China Policy,” in Richard H. Immerman (ed.), John Foster Dulles and the Diplomacy of the Cold War (1990), ch. 9.
Richard Bush, “The Status of the ROC and Taiwan,1950-1972,” in At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations Since 1942 (2004), ch. 4,
“Taiwan’s Bomb,” National Security Archive Briefing Book, January 10, 2019
David Albright and Andrea Stricker, Taiwan’s Former Nuclear Weapons Program: Nuclear Weapons on Demand (2018).
Richard C. Bush, “A One-China Policy Primer,” Brookings Institution, December 13, 2016.
Declassified Memorandum of Conversation among Nixon, Chou En-lai, Kissinger, and others in William Burr, “Nixon’s Trip to China,” National Security Archive Briefing Book, December 11, 2003.
Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, “Taiwan Expendable? Nixon and Kissinger Go to China,” Journal of American History, 92 (2005), pp. 109-135.
U.S.-PRC JOINT COMMUNIQUE (1972) (Shanghai Communique)
U.S.-PRC JOINT COMMUNIQUE (1979) (Normalization Communique)
The U.S.-PRC JOINT COMMUNIQUE (1982)
The Six Assurances and the “Reagan Codicil”
Lawrence Eagleburger, “Declassified cables: Taiwan arms sales,” American Institute in Taiwan, July 10, 1982.
Harvey Feldman, “President Reagan's Six Assurances to Taiwan and Their Meaning Today,” The Heritage Foundation, October 2, 2007.
Alan Romberg, Rein in at the Brink of the Precipice: American Policy Toward Taiwan and U.S.-PRC Relations (2003).
Lord, Winston, “Taiwan Policy Review,” Statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Washington, DC, September 27, 1994.
Goldstein, Steven. “In Defense of Strategic Ambiguity in the Taiwan Strait,” The National Bureau of Asian Research, October 15, 2021.
Huang Jing and Li Xiaoting, Inseparable Separation: The Making of China’s Taiwan Policy (2010), Introduction.
Chen-yuan Tung, “Assessment of China’s Taiwan Policy under the Third Generation Leadership,” Asian Survey, 45 ((2005), pp. 344-61.
Xin Qiang, “Selective Engagement: Mainland China’s Dual-Track Taiwan
Policy,” Contemporary China, 29 (2020), pp. 535–552.
Wei-chin Lee, “Multiple Shades of China’s Taiwan Policy after the 19th Party Congress,” Journal of Asian and African Studies, 55 (2020), pp. 201-20.
Recommended:
Gerald Chan, “The "Two-Chinas" Problem and the Olympic Formula,” Pacific Affairs 58, no. 3 (1985), pp. 473-490.
Harry Harding, “What Went Wrong? The United States and China from Partners to Competitors,” written for the Carter Center’s symposium to commemorate President Carter’s 1979 decision to normalize relations with China, January 2019.
Raymond Kuo, “‘Strategic Ambiguity’ Has the U.S. and Taiwan Trapped,” Foreign Policy, January 18, 2023.
Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (2022).
John Liu and Paul Mozur, “TSMC Chairman Mark Liu Says Company Will Keep Its Roots in Taiwan,” The New York Times, August 4, 2023.
Ian Easton, The Chinese Invasion Threat: Taiwan’s Defense and American Strategy in Asia (2017).
Tanner Greer, “Why I Fear for Taiwan,” The Scholar's Stage, September 11, 2020.
John Mearsheimer, “Say Good-Bye to Taiwan,” The National Interest, February 25, 2014.
Choi Hyun-june, “Growing Skepticism in Taiwan — Not about China, but the US,” The Hankyoreh, Aril 20, 2023.
Aaron Tu and Jonathan Chin, “Poll Shows 55% of Taiwanese Expect US Help if Attacked,” Taipei Times, April 28, 2023.
Harry Harding, “Change and Continuity in America’s Taiwan Policy,” in Mariah Thornton, Robert Ash, and Dafydd Fell (eds.) Taiwan's Economic and Diplomatic Challenges and Opportunities (2021), ch. 9.
Students will be expected to identify the topics and readings to be discussed in each class session, to participate in those discussions, and then to present a term paper.