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02425aam a22002898i 4500 001 CA451C34223711EFB457909958ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604010036 008 231004s2024 nyub e b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023044326 020 $a 1541605047 020 $a 9781541605046 035 $a (OCoLC)1396552146 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d GK8 $d OCLCO $d TOH $d WIM $d LE# $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a a-cc--- $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Khan, Sulmaan Wasif, $e author. 245 14 $a The struggle for Taiwan : $b a history of America, China, and the island caught between / $c Sulmaan Wasif Khan. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Basic Books, $c 2024. 300 $a ix, 323 : $b maps ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-264, 271-305) and index. 505 0 $a The making of the Taiwan problem, 1943 to 1953 -- Choosing between two tyrannies, 1953 to 1971 -- Toward another crisis, 1971 to 1996 -- The hardening line, 1996 to 2020 -- After Covid. 520 $a "As tensions over Taiwan escalate, the United States and China stand on the brink of a catastrophic war. Resolving the impasse demands we understand how it began. In 1943, America declared that Japanese-held Taiwan would return to China at the conclusion of World War II. The Chinese civil war led to a change of plans. The Communist Party came to power in China and the defeated Nationalist leader, Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan, where he was afforded US protection. The specter of conflict has loomed ever since. In The Struggle for Taiwan, Sulmaan Wasif Khan offers the first comprehensive history of the triangular relationship between the United States, China, and Taiwan, exploring America's ambivalent commitment to Taiwan's defense, China's bitterness about the separation, and Taiwan's impressive transformation into a flourishing democracy. War is not inevitable, Khan shows, but to avoid it, decision-makers must heed the lessons of the past. From the White Terror to the Taiwan Straits Crises, from the normalization of Sino-American relations to Trump-era rising tensions, The Struggle for Taiwan charts the paths to our present predicament to show what futures might be possible"-- $c Provided by publisher. 941 $a 2 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702025925.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240604011509.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CA451C34223711EFB457909958ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search