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The Nationalists were defeated by the Communists in the Chinese Civil War. [33]: 125 The ROC government retreated to Taiwan.[33]: 125 In August 1949, the United States suspended the ROC's involvement in the Fulbright Program because the fleeing government was no longer able to make payments on the surplus war material it had purchased from the United States after the end of World War II.
Taiwanese people of American descent (2 C, 9 P) Pages in category "Taiwan–United States relations" The following 51 pages are in this category, out of 51 total.
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 ...
The bipartisan United States Senate Taiwan Caucus focuses exclusively on improving American-Taiwanese relations. It currently has 33 members in the 117th congress . Its counterpart in the House is the Congressional Taiwan Caucus .
Shortly after the United States recognized the People's Republic of China, the U.S. Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act. Some of the treaty's content survives in the Act; for example, the definition of "Taiwan". However, it falls short of promising Taiwan direct military assistance in case of an invasion. [5]
The American Institute in Taiwan [3] (AIT; Chinese: 美國 在 台 協會; pinyin: Měiguó Zài Tái Xiéhuì) is the de facto embassy of the United States of America in Taiwan. AIT is a wholly owned subsidiary of the federal government of the United States in Taiwan with Congressional oversight . [ 4 ]
Prior to 1979, the Republic of China (Taiwan) was represented in Washington by its embassy, occupying the building now used by Haiti. [2] After the transfer of recognition to the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China was no longer recognized by the United States, and therefore no longer entitled to use the former embassy, with its diplomatic mission replaced by the current Taipei ...
Taiwan also regards the European Union, with which it also has unofficial relations via the Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium, as a state entity in the context of international relations; the EU is a supranational union with a high level of integration between its member states, though each member state retains its national ...