Zhao offers a quick history of China's foreign policy since 1949 and then offers a provocative assessment of it today.
U.S. politics
Taiwan Relations Act, 1979
April 10, 1979
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, and for other purposes.
Address by President Gerald R. Ford at the University of Hawaii, December 7, 1975
December 7, 1975
President Ford's speech at the University of Hawaii after returning from his trip to China. Excerpted from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library & Museum.
Richard Nixon, Remarks upon Returning from China, Feb. 28, 1972
February 28, 1972
Remarks made by President Richard Nixon after his trip to the People's Republic of China.
Richard Nixon, "The Journey to Peking," from the Third Annual Report to the Congress on U.S. Foreign Policy, February 9, 1972
February 9, 1972
Part of a larger report on U.S. foreign policy. The report was delivered to Congress only days before Nixon left for China.
Tonkin Gulf Resolution, August 7, 1964
January 7, 1964
The Tonkin Gulf Resolution is of historical significance because it gave U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson authorization, without a formal declaration of war by Congress, for the use of conventional military force in Southeast Asia. Specifically, the resolution authorized the President to do whatever necessary in order to assist "any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty." This included involving armed forces.
United States - Chinese Joint Statement December 1, 1954
December 1, 1954
A 1954 security pact between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the United States
Message From the United States President to the Emperor of Japan, 1941
December 6, 1941
One day before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor with 420 airplanes, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sent the following message to the Showa Emperor of Japan.
United States Note to Japan, 1941
November 26, 1941
The text of the document handed by the Secretary of State to the Japanese Ambassador on November 26, 1941, which consists of two parts, one an oral statement and one an outline of a proposed basis for agreement between the United States and Japan.
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