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After the United States established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1979 and recognized Beijing as the only legal government of China, Taiwan–United States relations became unofficial and informal following terms of the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), which allows the United States to have relations with the Taiwanese people and their government, whose name is ...
Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative Act; Taiwan Council for U.S. Affairs; Taiwan Relations Act; Taiwan Relations Act Affirmation and Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2014; Taiwan Security Enhancement Act; Taiwan Travel Act; Transit diplomacy; Trump–Tsai call; Twin Oaks (Washington, D.C.)
Following the termination of diplomatic relations between the Republic of China and the United States on January 1, 1979, the U.S. established the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) [4] in accordance with the Taiwan Relations Act. In response, the Executive Yuan set up the Coordination Council for North American Affairs as its counterpart ...
President Tsai Ing-wen's 2016 stopover in Los Angeles included a meeting with American Institute in Taiwan chairman Raymond Burghardt Although the transits are "unofficial" in nature, they offer opportunities for Taiwanese presidents or vice presidents to have phone calls with high-level U.S. officials, or hold private clandestine meetings with ...
Across the Pacific : an inner history of American-East Asian relations (1967) online; Isaacs, Harold R. Scratches on Our Minds: American Images of China and India (1958) online; Jensen, Richard, Jon Davidann, and Yoneyuki Sugita, eds. Trans-Pacific Relations: America, Europe, and Asia in the Twentieth Century (Praeger, 2003), 304 pp online review
A new $250 million compound for the American Institute in Taiwan was unveiled in June 2018, accompanied by a "low-key" American delegation. The Chinese authorities denounced this action as violation of the "one China" policy statement and demanded the US to stop all relations with Taiwan without intercession of China.
The Taiwanese 9–13 July 2002 visit to the United States of America involved discussing bilateral cooperation in law enforcement. The visit was headed by Chen Ding-nan, the Taiwanese Minister of Justice, with the highlight being the reception by his American counterpart John Ashcroft, Attorney General of the United States of America in the afternoon of 12 July 2002 local time (early morning ...
According to the 2009 U.S. Census, Taiwanese American men had one of "the highest year-round, full-time median earnings" with a figure of $76,587, while Taiwanese American women had a median income of $51,307. Taiwanese Americans have one of the lowest poverty rates in the US, with a poverty rate of 9.5% compared to 11.3% for the general ...