Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China by

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker

US Embassy Taipei 1957

Eisenhower in Taiwan 1959

Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party)

President Dwight D. Eisenhower

Mao Zedong

Yangmingshan, Taiwan signals intelligence post

Repression in Taiwan

Mao Zedong & Richard Nixon

Mao Zedong & Henry Kissinger

"Ping-Pong diplomacy" left Chiang out

Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon 1972

Jimmy Carter & Deng Xiaoping

Ronald Reagan & Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan in 1971

George W. Bush & Premier Wen Jiabao at White House 2003

Presidents Lee Teng-hui, Chen Shui-bian & Ma Ying-jeou

Taiwan wants 66 F-16s from the US

Gift to Taiwan: Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan (together means reunion in

Chinese)

China has not moved any of 1,500 missiles aimed at Taiwan

Anti-Ma Ying-jeou rallies

We must liberate Taiwan

Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China by

Nancy Bernkopf Tucker