The Taiwan Relations Act at 40: An Enduring Framework for US-Taiwan Relations

Описание: The Global Taiwan Institute and the Foreign Policy Research Institute hosted a symposium on “The Taiwan Relations Act at 40: An Enduring Framework for US-Taiwan Relations.”

Panelists:
Jerome Cohen: Professor of Law, NYU School of Law, and Senior Fellow for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations
June Teufel Dreyer: Professor of Political Science, University of Miami, and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Research Institute
Shelley Rigger: Brown Professor of East Asian Politics, Davidson College, and Senior Fellow, FPRI
Jacques deLisle: Director, Asia Program, FPRI, and Stephen A. Cozen Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
Russell Hsiao: Executive Director, Global Taiwan Institute; Penn Kemble Fellow, National Endowment for Democracy; and Adjunct Fellow, Pacific Forum

For four decades, the Taiwan Relations Act has been a foundation of US policy toward Taiwan and cross-Strait relations. Adopted in the wake of Washington’s decision to end diplomatic relations and a mutual defense pact with the Republic of China as part of the process of normalizing relations between the US and the People’s Republic of China, the TRA has enduringly set forth Washington’s commitment to robust if informal diplomatic relations with Taiwan and support for Taiwan’s security. The TRA has been remarkably resilient, nearly immune from amendment, rarely supplemented by other lawmaking, and accepted at home and invoked abroad by US presidents and administrations as a basis for, and a constraint on, US foreign policy. As a law passed by Congress and signed by the president, the TRA has stood apart from the other documents that frame the US’s Taiwan policy, including the three US-PRC Joint Communiqués and the Six Assurances.