Taiwan Straits

Bruce A. Elleman is William V. Pratt Professor of International History in the Maritime History Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of twenty books and government reports, including "Diplomacy and Deception: The Secret History of Sino-Soviet Diplomatic Relations, 1917–1927 (1997); Modern Chinese Warfare, 1795–1989 (2001, translatedintoChinese); Wilson and China: A Revised History of the Shandong Question (2002); Japanese–American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941–45 (2006); and Moscow and the Emergence of Communist Power in China, 1925–30: The Nanchang Uprising and the Birth of the Red Army (2009).

This book provides an account of the strategies and tactics as well as the organization and conduct of the U.S. Navy’s Taiwan Patrol Force (TPF) in four confrontations between China and Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait. . . .The book recovers several valuable memos and maps from archival obscurity and recounts numerous anecdotes of the tension and tedium of naval operations in the strait.

• List of Maps, Figures, and Photographs Acknowledgments Introduction: The Taiwan StraitChapter 1: The Historical Origins of the “Two China” ProblemChapter 2: The Two Chinas, the Offshore Islands, and the Korean War Chapter 3: The U.S. Seventh Fleet and the Taiwan Patrol Force Chapter 4: Debates on the U.S. China Policy Chapter 5: The First Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1954-55 Chapter 6: American Military and Financial Support for the Nationalists Chapter 7: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1958 Chapter 8: The Third Taiwan Strait Crisis and Sino-American Rapprochement Chapter 9: PRC Economic Development, Tiananmen, and the Fourth Taiwan Strait Crisis, 1995-96 Chapter 10: Beijing-Taipei Cross-Strait Tensions and Cooperation Conclusion: The Taiwan Strait Challenge Appendix A: Further Reading Appendix B: Timeline of Major Events in the Taiwan Strait Appendix C: U.S.-ROC Mutual Defense Treaty, 2 December 1954 (ratified 1955) Appendix D: Formosa Resolution, 1955Appendix E: Shanghai Communiqué, 28 February 1972 Appendix F: Joint Communiqué on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the People's Republic of China and the United States of America, 16 December 1978Appendix G: Taiwan Relations Act, 10 April 1979 Appendix H: Joint Communiqué on the Question of Arms Sales to Taiwan, 17 August 1982 Appendix I: Anti-Secession Law adopted by NPC, 14 March 2005Appendix J: Cross-Straits Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement, 29 June 2010List of AcronymsBibliography About the Author