Taming the Wild Dragon: John F. Kennedy and the Republic of China, 1961–63

2019/03/28 by Nicholas Anthony Autiello · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

paper · doi:10.1080/14682745.2018.1550077

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Abstract

During the Kennedy Presidency, broader Cold War strategy and domestic political pressures informed the administration’s response to several crises presented by the Republic of China and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek. Throughout the Kennedy presidency, the relationship between the United States and the Republic of China deteriorated, and there was a growing recognition that rapprochement with the Communist People’s Republic of China would have to happen someday. This study looks at the domestic American factors that played into this deterioration through a struggle in the UN over Chinese representation in 1961 and a would-be crisis in the Taiwan Strait in 1962.

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• Foreign policy of the Kennedy administration [wikipedia]

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