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The Taiwan Crisis tional security adviser, and Peter Tarnoff, the undersecretary of state for political affairs. They were to arrange a private meeting in New York with a senior aide to the Taiwanese president and sit him down for a sober talk about American expectations. But neither Clinton nor his advisers that weekend addressed the larger question—to what extent would America defend Taiwan? In 1958, American warships escorted Taiwanese military transport ships to within a mile of the Chinese coastline so that Taiwanese forces could offload munitions and supplies for their garrisons on Quemoy and Matsu.
But when he failed, President Harry Truman washed his hands of die matter and witlidrew. In January 1949, Mao's forces marched tlirough die gates of old Beijing, and on October 1, Mao and his military commanders climbed to die balcony of the Gate of Heavenly Peace, which guards the entrance to die Forbidden City and overlooks Tiananmen Square, and declared the founding of the People's Republic of China. At that moment, Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces were in flight across the Taiwan Strait, and once landed on the island, they set up temporary quarters in squalid tent cities and began plotting a military strategy to return to the mainland.
The risk of war was startlingly apparent in the Taiwan crisis of T996, where this book will begin. That crisis of dangerous ballistic missile firings and American naval deployments brought the United States closer to military confrontation widi mainland China than at any time since the Eisen*The Taiwan Relations Act of 1979 states, "It is the policy of the United States . . to consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States, [and]...
