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

by John W. Garver

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765600257
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/1997
Series:	Taiwan in the Modern World (M.E. Sharpe Hardcover)
Pages:	450
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Contradictory Policies: Encouraging Chinese Titoism and Consolidating the Offshore Perimeter 3. Nationalist China and the Korean War 4. Formation of the U.S.-Nationalist Alliance 5. Containment Versus Liberation 6. Covert Operations Against the Mainland 7. The Offshore Islands 8. The Burma Campaign: Operation Paper and Its Aftermath 9. The Tibetan Operation: Joint Support for the Tibetan Resistance 10. Joint Intelligence Operations Against the Mainland 11. Taiwan and the Vietnam War 12. Nationalist China and the Containment of PRC Influence 13. U.S. Policy and the Taiwan Model 14. The 1971 Debacle at the United Nations 15. The Alliance and U.S.-PRC Rapprochement 16. Conclusions

Editorial Reviews

The author suggests that the US relationship with the Nationalist regime on Taiwan was an important element of US strategy during the 1950s and 1960s, and part of the overall objective of splitting the Sino-Soviet bloc and containing the revolutionary expansion of China during the early stages of the Cold War in Asia. He attempts to weigh the various components of the US-Nationalist relation in terms of their utility, or disservice, to US policy objectives. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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