The Sino-American alliance : Nationalist China and American Cold War strategy in Asia
John W. Garver (Author)
This study provides an analysis of the role the United States alliance with Nationalist China played in US strategy to contain first the Sino-Soviet alliance and then China during the 1950s and 1960s.
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1. Introduction
2. Contradictory policies : encouraging Chinese Titoism and consolidating the offshore perimeter
3. Nationalist China and the Korean War
4. Formation of the U.S.-Nationalist alliance
5. Containment versus liberation
6. Covert operations against the mainland
7. The offshore islands
8. The Burma campaign : Operation Paper and its aftermath
9. The Tibetan operation : joint support for the Tibetan resistance
10. Joint intelligence operations against the mainland
11. Taiwan and the Vietnam War
12. Nationalist China and the containment of PRC influence
13. U.S. policy and the Taiwan model
14. The 1971 debacle at the United Nations
15. The alliance and U.S.-PRC rapprochement
16. Conclusion
"An East gate book."