Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Landscape and memory
  • In the context of the Cold War
  • The origins of strategic ambiguity
  • Détente
  • Taiwan expendable?
  • Survival
  • Ford's tribulations
  • Collapse and reprieve
  • Moral imperatives, military challenges
  • Derecognition
  • Final act
  • The Taiwan Relations Act
  • Recognizing your friends and enemies
  • The Reagan difference
  • American assurances
  • The end of the Cold War
  • Shifting ground
  • Search for a new world order
  • Change and continuity
  • Taiwan Strait crisis
  • Setting the record straight
  • War against terrorism
  • The influence of democracy
  • The uses of adversity.