The Sino-American Alliance: Nationalist China and American Cold War Strategy in Asia

Description

This study provides an analysis of the role the United States alliance with Nationalist China played in US strategy to contain first the Sino-Soviet alliance and then China during the 1950s and 1960s. Contents Figures and Tables 1 Introduction 2 Contradictory Policies: Encouraging Chinese Titoism and Consolidating the Offshore Perimeter Encouraging Chinese Titoism and Consolidating the Offshore Perimeter The Sino-Soviet Alliance and the United States9 Scrapping of Its Hands-Off Policy 3 Nationalist China and the Korean War 4 Formation of the U.S.-Nationalist Alliance Operation Oracle and the Geneva Talks The Nationalist Military Contribution to the Alliance Burden Sharing by Major U.S. Alliance Partners* U.S. Transfer of Naval Vessels to Taiwan 5 Containment Versus Liberation Divergent Perspectives Within the Alliance 6 Covert Operations Against the Mainland Operations Against the Mainland Covert Operations in the 1960s U.S.-ROC Unconventional Warfare Exercises 7 The Offshore Islands The Management of Intra-Alliance Conflict 8 The Burma Campaign: Operation Paper and Its Aftermath The Korean War Burma Operation The Purpose of Operation Paper The Termination of American Participation in the North Burma Operation 9 The Tibetan Operation: Joint Support for the Tibetan Resistance The Tibetan Insurgency Notes 10 Joint Intelligence Operations Against the Mainland Joint U.S.-ROC Intelligence Efforts U.S. Deliveries of Reconnaissance Aircraft to Taiwan Notes 11 Taiwan and the Vietnam War Taiwan’s Role as a Support Base for the U.S. Effort 12 Nationalist China and the Containment of PRC Influence Nationalist China as an Instrument for Isolating Communist China The Questions of Diplomatic Recognition and United Nations Representation 13 U.S. Policy and the Taiwan Model 14 The 1971 Debacle at the United Nations The Betrayal of Taiwan? Notes 15 The Alliance and U.S.-PRC Rapprochement Contradictions in the Alliance Notes 16 Conclusions Intra-Alllance Bargaining Index