Rapprochement between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland: Implications for american foreign policy

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 20, Issue 69, 2011, Pages 231-247

  Hickey, Dennis V ^a  

^a MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOREIGN POLICY; GOVERNMENT RELATIONS; INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS; LEADERSHIP; POLICY STRATEGY; POWER RELATIONS; STATE ROLE;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; TAIPEI; TAIWAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79551705373     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: 14699400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2011.541629     Document Type: Article

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77. As Chairman Burghardt noted, 'you don't see that stuff in US policy documents about Taiwan. Maybe you did back in the days of Douglas MacArthur, but not in recent decades. But these ideas do live on in certain think-tank circles'.
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