Sino-American Relationship

By smolmilo

  • American Economic and Military support to Taiwan from 1950

    support KMT for anti-communism (strategic/ideological?)
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    Sino-US relations

  • US defence alliances around China to block Chinese expansion

    ANZUS treaty 1951, SEATO 1954
    (strategic)

  • US threat to China's security and sovereignty

    threatened China with nuclear attack for the armistice in Korea
    (strategic)

  • Signed mutual defense treaty with KMT

    Signed in dec 1954 to prevent PRC from invading Taiwan after 1955

  • Taiwan Strait Crisis

    Rhetoric and military assaults by PRC

  • Afro asian conference in bandung

    To ease tensions between us and china

  • containment of communism

    under NSC68, "Foreign Information and Education" programme - ideological subversion and psychological warfare eg Radio Free Europe in Hungarian uprising in 1956 (ideological)

  • Anti-Americanism in communist China

    25 point programme for "Building a United Front against US imperialism"

  • PRC first atomic bomb

    (security)