Troubled Waters Around Taiwan

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🗓️ 17 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit was met with fury and condemnation in Beijing, as well as new Chinese military exercises in the seas surrounding Taiwan. In the aftermath of the visit, Ryan invited three experts to talk about relations between the United States, Taiwan, and China. They discuss why the visit generated such a fierce reaction from the People's Republic of China, the role of legislative visits to Taiwan, the Taiwan Policy Act being considered on Capitol Hill, domestic politics in all three countries, and how Beijing tries to move the goal posts. Ryan banged on about discussions over Taiwan's security ought not be separated from debates over the size of the U.S. Navy. The guests called for a new policy review on Taiwan, the first in decades. And all three recommended some essential reading on this topic (episode reading: https://warontherocks.com/2022/08/troubled-waters-around-taiwan/).

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0:00.0	You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense, and foreign affairs.
0:14.4	My name is Ryan Evans.
0:16.0	In this episode we talk about the U.S. Taiwanese relationship in the aftermath of Speaker
0:19.7	Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan and China's increasingly aggressive posture towards Taiwan
0:24.5	which it considers to be a renegade province. First I want to talk a little bit
0:28.8	about 101 issues on the United States and Taiwanese relationship, it's admittedly very confusing even for those
0:34.5	of us who observe and do national security things for a living.
0:38.5	So the United States and Taiwan have a robust unofficial relationship, and even though it's officially
0:44.0	unofficial it has many official seeming components to it. The relationship
0:48.3	includes substantial two-way trade, people-to-people ties, and arm sales. But since the 1970s the US government has not had an official
0:56.0	relationship with Taiwan. Before the United States normalized diplomatic relations with
1:01.8	mainland China during the Nixon administration
1:04.3	to take advantage of the Cino Soviet split. The United States actually recognized
1:08.8	Taiwan as the legitimate government of China and that changed in the 70s.
1:13.6	Today US Taiwan ties are governed primarily by three sets of documents,
1:19.8	the three communiques with China, the six assurances to Taiwan and the Taiwan Relations
1:24.8	Act.
1:25.8	Through these statements, the United States acknowledges, but does not explicitly accept
1:30.4	China's claim that Taiwan is a part of China, yet also promises to provide Taiwan
1:35.6	with arms of a defensive character and to maintain the U.S. capacity, but not
1:40.8	necessarily the overt commitment, to resist any resort to force by mainland China or other forms of coercion against Taiwan.
1:50.0	So now that we got that out of the way, let me introduce our guests.
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