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The Taiwan Relations Act (TRA; Pub. L. 96–8, H.R. 2479, 93 Stat. 14, enacted April 10, 1979) is an act of the United States Congress. Since the formal recognition of the People's Republic of China , the Act has defined the officially substantial but non-diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Taiwan (Republic of China).
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 Taiwan Relations Act (Pub. L. 96–8, 93 Stat. 14, enacted April 10, 1979; H.R. 2479) is an act of the United States Congress that has defined the non-diplomatic relations between the United States and the residual Republic of China on Taiwan since the United States diplomatically recognized the People's Republic of China as "China". The ...
The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee floated the bill to cut against Beijing's "One China Principle" and other efforts aimed at thwarting Taiwan's diplomatic ...
Post-1979, the U.S. relationship with Taiwan has been governed by the Taiwan Relations Act, which gives a legal basis to provide the Chinese-claimed island with the means to defend itself, but ...
- The United States, which has no formal diplomatic relations with Taipei, is obliged to help Taiwan with the means to defend itself under the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act.
The State Department has reaffirmed the Six Assurances repeatedly. [6]On May 19, 2016, one day before Tsai Ing-wen assumed the Presidency of the Republic of China, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and co-chair of the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... Taiwan, province of China (UN designation), Governing authorities on Taiwan (name used by the Taiwan Relations Act from 1 ...