The Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1954-55 and U.S.-R.O.C Relations

On September 3, 1954, Chinese artillery began shelling Quemoy (Jinmen), one of the Kuomintang-held offshore islands, setting off the first Taiwan Strait Crisis. This paper focuses on the crisis and analyzes the following three questions: (1) What was the policy the U.S. took towards the Republic of China (R.O.C), especially towards the offshore islands, to try to end the Taiwan Strait Crisis? (2) What were the intentions of the U.S. government in trying to end the Taiwan Strait Crisis? And (3) how should U.S. policy towards the R.O.C. which led to solving the Taiwan Strait Crisis be positioned in the history of Sino-American relations? Through analysis of these questions, this study concludes that the position the U.S. took to bring an end to crisis, one which prevented China from “liberating Taiwan” and the Kuomintang from “attacking the mainland,” brought about the existence of a de facto “two-China” situation.

A Comparative view of the present laws against the illicit exportation of wool, &c. : and the bill now depending in Parliament for the same purpose, whereby are refuted the charges brought against the said bill by the resolutions of the meeting held at the house of Sir John Thorold, bart. and the Thatched House Tavern.

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Federal aid primary route 340 interstate route 55 to interstate route 80 Cook, DuPage, and Will Counties : final environmental impact statement and section 4(f) evaluation : submitted pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(c) and 49 U.S.C. 303 /

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Copies of letters &c. read in the Legislative Council in the debate upon the Clergy Reserve Bill microform : January 17, 1840 /

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Memorial of the New-York Chamber of Commerce, to the Hon. the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled; with statements, prepared by order of the Chamber, to show the present rate of duties, and the rate of duties proposed by the tariff bill, now before Congress. With remarks, &c.

The memorial is signed on p.12: By order of the Chamber of Commerce, William Bayard, President. ... New-York, January 30, 1824.

The Edinburgh review and the West Indies : with observations on the pamphlets of Messrs. Stephen, Macaulay, &c. and remarks on the slave registry bill /

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More thoughts occasioned by two publications : which the authors call An exposure of some of the numerous misstatements and misrepresentations contained in a pamphlet commonly known by the name of Mr. Marryat's pamphlet, entitled Thoughts, &c., and, A defence of the bill for the registration of slaves /

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Shipowners' liability (sick and injured seamen) convention, 1936--disability compensation. Hearings before the Committee on merchant marine and fisheries, House of representatives, Seventy-sixth Congress, first session, on H. R. 6726, a bill relating to disability compensation for seamen; and H. R. 6881, a bill implementing draft convention no. 55.

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R.F.C. and federal housing loans for municipal and flood relief : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, second session, on S. 3909, a bill providing for loans by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to municipalities in certain cases; S. 4328, a bill relating to the authority of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make rehabilitation loans for the repair of damages caused by floods or other catastrophies, and for other purposes; and S. 4396, a bill to amend the National housing act for flood relief purposes, and for other purposes. April 1, 1936 ...

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To increase R.F.C. subscription to capital stock of Commodity credit corporation. Hearings before the Committee on banking currency, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, second session, on S.3998, a bill to enable the Commodity credit corporation to better serve the farmers in orderly marketing, and to provide credit and facilities for carrying surpluses from season to season. February 18 and 19, 1936.

Duncan U. Fletcher.