...Fan Taiwan Relations Act Speaking of Taiwan in U.S. policy, the most important thing will be "Taiwan Relations Act." "Taiwan Relations Act" has been in effect for 33 years. United States established formal diplomatic relations with China. 10. "Taiwan Relations Act" is to regulate the Taiwan-US bilateral "non-diplomatic relations”, and is an important legal basis for the U.S. executive and legislative departments to handle Taiwan affairs. than international treaties. As a United States domestic law, it rank higher It authorizes the U.S. government to continue the In 1979, the In order to reduce the act’s impact on Taiwan, U.S. signed "Taiwan Relations Act" in the same year on April communication on economic, social and cultural aspects among the American people and the people of Taiwan. It also affirms that it is the U.S.’ important goal to protect and promote the human rights of the people of Taiwan. In the "Taiwan Relations Act" Section II, subsection 1 states that, the main purposes of the formulation of the Act is “to help maintain peace, security, and stability in the Western Pacific; and to promote the foreign policy of the United States by authorizing the continuation of commercial, cultural, and other relations between the people of the United States and the people on Taiwan.” After more than 30 years, most of these goals have been achieved. The law has played a very important role in maintaining the security of the Western Pacific. "Taiwan Relations Act" has 18...
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...GNlu | US-CHINA RELATIONS | SUBMITTED TO:Dr.Aruna Kumar Malik | | SUBMITTED BY :ABHISHEK CHATTERJEE | REG NO :11A006 INDEX Introduction Pg 2 US China Comparison Pg 3 Brief History Of US-China Relations Pg 5 Conclusion Pg 21 INTRODUCTION Since the dawn of civilization there have been great nations, 5000 years back the Mesopotamian,Egyptian and Indus Valley Civilization were the super-powers,if not the only advanced civilization of their time,2000 years back we had the roman empire and the chineese,500 years back the mughal empire,the ottoman empire etc. The world order keeps on changing, the end of the first world war saw the rise of America along the ranks of other European superpowers like the British Empire,France and Germany and saw the fall of 2 superpowers,the ottoman and the Austria-hungry empire. The second world war ushered the modern world into a new world order. The United Nations was born and its membership suddenly grew. The United States brought about reconstruction of the war torn economies of Europe and Japan and ensured stable democracies for her new allies...
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...Japan, China, and the US, three of the most powerful nations in the world, have long had complicated political relations. By the time the United States was a burgeoning country with military and economic power, Japan and China already had a long account of political interactions. The two countries are geographically separated only by the East China Sea; Japan has been strongly influenced by ancient China with its language, culture, and religion. When Western countries forced Japan to open trading in the mid-19th century, Japan moved towards modernization and the Meiji Restoration. This led to changing views about China; Japan began viewing them as an outdated civilization, unable to defend itself against Western forces. This, of course, strongly influenced their political ties. However, as the United States began emerging as a world power and taking interest in East Asian countries, its relationship with both China and Japan changed, which in turn affected China and Japan’s relationships with each other. The New Era of US-Japanese relations began in the postwar...
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...THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTERS OF SCIENCE IN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT & INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS J. Sebastian Smith The Bahamas October 2011 Title Strategic Implications from the People’s Republic of China’s Influence in the Americas: Potential Consequences facing the United States, Brazil &Venezuela Abstract This research seeks to examine the strategic implications facing the United States of America’s due to its benign interest in the Caribbean and Latin America (Americas) given the People’s Republic of China (China) increasing economic interest in the region. It is intended to first define the current security environment of the Americas and the relations between Brazil and Venezuela with that of the United States of America (United States) and China. Thereafter, China’s economic and domestic agenda in the Americas will be examined with hypotheses of the emerging global power potential growth success, challenges or possible collapse in her foreign policy. The likely consequences facing Brazil, Venezuela and the United States will also be examined. The assessment will be done across a continuum of China’s realized economic growth, development of hostile relations due to competition for scarce energy sources or possible collapse due to the country’s internal problems. Finally, the research seeks to encourage proactive thinking by the United States on China’s increasing political and military influence in the region and its possible underlying...
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...U.S.A.-China Trade Relations Carol Buchanan Naga S. Grandhi Leigh Goulet Bellevue University Abstract The United States of America (also referred to as U.S.A.) and China are the top two biggest economies with $16.2 trillion and $9 trillion dollars respectively. Both of these countries have very strong trade relationships. In the year 2013, U.S.A. exported $122,016.3 million worth of goods to China and imported $440,433.5 worth of goods from China. These figures clearly indicate that there was a huge difference between import and export values in 2013 and also appear to disproportionately favor China. This paper addresses the trade relation between these countries and explains its current situation. This paper also explains the concept of “opportunity cost” as it relates to trade between these countries. Keywords: U.S.A.-China trade relations, imports, exports, opportunity cost. U.S.A.-China Trade Relations Problem Statement Both the U.S.A. and China have strong economic backgrounds. Globalization welcomed trade between these nations. Overall, the balance of trade in goods and services between U.S.A. and China appears to be in favor of China. This creates several problems and dependencies between these two countries. Introduction/Background U.S.A.-China trade rose rapidly after the two nations reestablished diplomatic relations (in January 1979), signed a bilateral trade agreement (July 1979), and provided mutual most-favored-nation (MFN) treatment beginning...
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...Chapter 4 Rapprochement and Normalization United States during the 1960’s • Vietnam war- US involvement in the War took place from 1965-1975 with over 536,100 troops stationed overseas. The Results of this war was withdrawal of American forces from Indochina and a Communist takeover of South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. • Tet Offensive- Attacks that began on Vietnamese New Year 1968 that targeted military and civilians throughout South Vietnam. This was the turning point of the war and lead public opinion of the war in the US as unfavorable. • US draft- During the was 25% of United States Armed forces were draftees, with about 30% being combat deaths. • Many questioned US commitment to Vietnam with the cost of casualties, supplies, and...
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... Is Taiwan an Independent Nation? The relations between China and Taiwan have been anything but smooth. They have a fragile relationship and are in a constant state of wariness, ready to take action if anything were to break the fragile peace. The island of Taiwan has maintained its independence from the mainland since 1949, although the state of Taiwan's independence is a matter of huge debate. It may be difficult to understand the significance of Taiwan at first glance, but Taiwan is important to China for a number of interesting strategic and ideological reasons. Both of these countries have been through a lot and continue to go through many relations and foreign policies as the years go by. What now is called Taiwan started out as the Republic of China in the mainland of China after the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912. After many years of wars, two with Japan, Chiang Kai-shek established a stable form of government. This state considered itself to be the continuing sole legitimate ruler of all of China, referring to the communist government or "regime" as illegitimate, a so-called "Peoples' Republic of China" declared in Beijing by Mao Tse Tung. The Republic of China was supported for many years by many nations especially with the support of the United States who established a 1954 Mutual Defense treaty. Within a few years the People’s Republic of China was able to take more and more control of the government in China. Eventually the Communist regime had taken...
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...between China and Japan and the normalization of relations between the United States and China. And, over a longer period, the realization has grown that the Western Pacific region-which includes Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the ASEAN countries (the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia) and China-is one of the most dynamic areas in the world in terms of economic growth and development. "It is true that China and India are certainly very large in size," Neumann added. "At the same time these [PPP] measures shouldn't be the be-all and end-all of international comparisons. When, for example, we measure international purchasing power expressed in dollars, which matters in international trade, the U.S., Europe and Japan continue to be the dominate economies in the world." China's economy grew an annual 7.4 percent in the first quarter of this year, slowing from a 7.7 percent increase in the final quarter of 2013. Still, its economic growth continues to outpace that of developed world economies. China’s economy suffered economic downturns during the leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong, including during the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1960 (which led to a massive famine and reportedly the deaths of tens of millions of people) and the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 (which caused political chaos and greatly disrupted the economy). Since 1979, China’s average annual real GDP has grown by nearly 10%. This has meant that, on average, China has been...
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...diplomatic relations between the two nations. Throughout the next decade, Deng launched a series of economic and social reforms meant to improve the lives of Chinese citizens, including opening up China to foreign investment, decollectivizing agriculture, and allowing citizens to own businesses. He led massive economic reform within China and attempted to dissemble the communist economic structure that weighed down the nation during the Cultural...
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...China and Taiwan, while in practice maintaining a fragile "status quo" relationship, periodically grow impatient with the diplomatic patchwork that has kept the island separate from the Communist mainland since 1949. After losing the civil war to Communist Chinese and fleeing to Taiwan in 1949, the nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) leaders of the Republic of China regarded the Communist Chinese government as illegitimate, claiming the mainland as rightfully their own. Beijing, in turn, regards Taiwan as a renegade province, and has tried repeatedly to persuade the island to negotiate a return to the fold. The KMT returned to power in 2008 after being in opposition for eight years. During this time President Chen Shui-bian and his Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) had engaged in policy that widely departed from the KMT, invigorating efforts to seek Taiwan's sovereignty. Current President Ma Ying-jeou takes a decidedly more conciliatory approach; shortly after taking office he declared a "diplomatic truce" with China. Since then, Taiwan's relations with the mainland have improved. Share 91 6 ------------------------------------------------- “One China” Principle The two sides sharply disagree on Taiwan's de jure political status. The People's Republic of China asserts that there is only "One China" and Taiwan is an inalienable part of it. Beijing says Taiwan is bound by the consensus reached in 1992 between the representatives of both governments in Hong Kong. Referred to as...
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...China’s Relations with Africa and West Name Name of Institution Tutor Date China’s Relations with Africa and West Introduction The international relations between China and countries of the West and Africa have enjoyed a long standing relationship though at different levels. Since the emergence of the People’s Republic of China, China-West and China-Africa relations have advanced continuously, as shall be demonstrated herein by the deepening relations in economic, political and cultural realms. These relations have created a new form of strategic partnerships founded on political equality, economic win-win relations, mutual trust and social-cultural exchanges. Over the last 60 years or so, China-West and China-Africa co-operations, have been based on the principles of equality, sincerity, mutual benefit and international relations development. Particularly, in Africa the co-operations have demonstrated reverence to the will of African countries, deepened relations between African and Chinese businesses and indicated a higher level of sincerity in helping African countries in their development agendas. However, this may not be the case with co-operations between China and the West due to different interest between the two entities, apparently, different from those that are experienced in Africa. Notwithstanding these different interests, a common feature on trade and economic relations have reached remarkable results and the overall effect has enabled growth in business...
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...China-Taiwan Cross-Strait Relations: A General Overview The topic of Taiwan’s independence has been a decidedly sensitive subject for both those who are from either implicated party and outside nations alike, since the defeat of Kuomingtang (KMT) by the Communist Party in 1949. After so many decades of debate and political conflict, there has yet to be a concrete solution – the Taiwanese increasingly identify themselves as citizens of an independent nation, while the majority of the world has yet to recognize them officially as a nation separate from the PRC. Both parties involved – the PRC and Taiwan – have taken incredibly stubborn stances on this issue for the past several years, and it does not look like there will be an easy solution in the near future. China-Taiwan cross-strait relations are quite complicated, but for the sake of simplicity, it can be broken down into the period following the Japanese control over Taiwan, the defeat of the KMT, the period between the rise of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) and contemporary times, and finally, the rest of the world’s – namely the US’ – involvement in the entire matter. Prior to 1949, China’s governing group was the KMT – a nationalist party, as they call themselves. For 50 years, the Japanese controlled Taiwan – though arguably, they did more good than bad, as Taiwan developed much quicker than mainland China through their help – but was forced to relinquish its hold in 1945, when the Axis Powers were defeated...
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...The Great Aberration is the period of rupture in United States-China relations that lasted about 20 years since 1950s. The Americans at the time feared about communism, which was so rampant in Asian nations, especially in China. Because Americans had relatively good relationship with China for a period of time, and the People’s Republic of China’s leader, Mao Zedong, showed great hospitality to the US, Americans undervalued their traditional support of Asian Nationalism of China. The Truman Administration’s new foreign policy included how the US should treat the Communist countries in Asia and Europe, and the policy was very aggressive towards them. The policy contained very strong restrictions on the development of China as modern powerhouse, and it offended China’s national susceptibilities. Shortly after the introduction of the policy, the two previously friendly nations’ relation got worse. However, unlike the Cohen’s claim, the sudden change in relation between nations are not very rare....
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...Communist China * Browse essays using search option * Access free essay links resource page * Need help with paper writing services? * Bookmark our site for future reference Communism in an Economically Developing China The future of communism in China is unknown, as the world economy becomes more international. Communism has been in China since 1949 and is still present in the country’s activities. Presently China is undergoing incredible economic growth and promises to be a dominant power early in the next century. China’s social tradition has come under heavy pressure from forces of modernization generated in a large part by the sustained contact with the West that began in the middle of the nineteenth century. The Western incursion, not only refined China militarily but brought in its course new ideas- nationalism, science and technology, and innovations in politics, philosophy, and art. Chinese leaders have sought to preserve the nation’s cultural uniqueness by promoting specifically Chinese blends of tradition and modernity. China has undergone several major political transformations from a feudal-like system in early historical times, to a centralized bureaucratic empire that lasted through many unpredictable changes till 1911, to a republic with a communist form of government in the mainland since 1949. Economic geography and population pressure help account for the traditionally controlling role of the state in China. The constant indispensability...
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...1. Why are theories of international relations important? First of all, international relation is the study of relationship between countries, including the roles of states, inter-governmental organization, international nongovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and multinational corporations. In our modern society, globalization has made countries dependent with each other due to the rapid flow of goods, services, people, information and ideas that is driven by economic factor, which includes increasing productive potential and creating new opportunities for international trade and investment, technological factor, which involves faster information access and easier international activities, and demographical factor, which involves different characteristics and resources in different areas. According to the Essentials of International Relations by Karen A Mingst, theory is a set of propositions and concepts that seek to explain phenomena by specifying the relationships among the concepts. So theory of international relation is a set of propositions and concepts that seek to explain international relation phenomena by specifying the relationships among the concepts. Therefore the theory of international relationship is important to analyze political events and their background. For example, behind US attack to Iraq, there were issues of terrorism, Saddam Hussein as an individual, democracy, and weapon. Moreover using the theories of international relationship...
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