{"product_id":"crosscurrents-us-relations-with-nationalist-china-1943-1960-9781793631145","title":"Crosscurrents: US Relations with Nationalist","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eLocked in a common fight against Imperial Japan, the United States and Nationalist China became allies, but significant fissures in their relationship soon developed. Neither ally would accommodate each other’s core interests in strategies necessary to win the war. This disconnect continued after Japan’s surrender, as the United States pressed Chinese Nationalists and Communists to join a coalition government that neither wanted. During the civil war, the United States supported the Nationalists, but never to the degree they thought mattered. After the Communist triumph, America served its national security and anti-Communism, by helping the Nationalists defend Taiwan, but hedged against assisting Chiang Kai-shek to reconquer the mainland. Twice in the 1950’s tensions in the Taiwan Strait nearly expanded into nuclear conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1: A Fraught Partnership\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2: An Impossible Coalition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3: Estrangement and a Lifeline\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4: 1953: A New Administration Arrives in Washington\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5: Rising Tensions in the Strait\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6: Eisenhower Goes to Congress\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7: The Formosa Resolution: Floor Proceedings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8: After the Resolution, a Treaty\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9: Defend or Abandon Quemoy and Matsu\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10: A Crisis Renewed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Text of the President Eisenhower's Message to Congress on the Formosa Resolution \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Text to the Formosa Resolution \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Text of the United States Mutual Defense Treaty with the Republic of China and related letters of understanding \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix D: The Anti-Secession Law of 2005\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix E: Maps of China and Taiwan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042661794135,"sku":"9781793631145","price":86.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793631145.jpg?v=1750955068","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crosscurrents-us-relations-with-nationalist-china-1943-1960-9781793631145","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}