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The United States' political leadership began to shift policy stances in 2011, starting with the Obama administration's "pivot" toward Asia. Then- secretary of state Hillary Clinton called for "increased investment—diplomatic, economic, strategic, and otherwise—in the Asia-Pacific region", which was seen as a move to counter China's growing ...
The treaty supported the Republic of China in asserting legitimacy as the sole government of the whole of mainland China until the early 1970s. During the Cold War, the treaty also helped US policymakers to shape the policy of containment in East Asia together with South Korea and Japan against the potential spread of communism.
Containment was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II. The name was loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire , which was containment of the Soviet Union in the interwar period .
The first island chain perimeter (marked in red).. The first island chain is the first string of major Pacific archipelagos out from the East Asian continental mainland coast. It is principally composed of the Kuril Islands, the Japanese archipelago, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan (), the northern Philippines, and Borneo, hence extending all the way from the Kamchatka Peninsula in the northeast to ...
See United States–Hong Kong Policy Act and United States–Macau Policy Act Republic of China: 1844 [1] 1911 (ended 1979) 1979 (Taiwan Relations Act - unofficial) See Taiwan–United States relations. The U.S. recognized the Nationalist Government as the legitimate government of all of China throughout the Chinese Civil War.
On the sidelines of China's annual National People's Congress this week, both Chinese President Xi Jinping and newly promoted Foreign Minister Qin Gang aired their respective frustrations at the ...
Dual containment was an official US foreign policy aimed at containing Ba'athist Iraq and Revolutionary Iran.The term was first officially used in May 1993 by Martin Indyk at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and officially announced on February 24, 1994 at a symposium of the Middle East Policy Council by Indyk, who was the senior director for Middle East Affairs of the National ...
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