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| Why is the United States Government Responsible for the Taiwan Question? |
| 日期:2001-04-17 14:58 編輯: system 來源： |
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Guided by its conceived global strategy and national interests considerations, the US Government gave full support to the Kuomintang, providing it with money, weapons and advisers to carry on the civil war and block the advance of the Chinese people's revolution. The US State Department's 1949 White Paper on Relations between the United States and China and US Secretary of State Dean Acheson's letter of transmittal to President Harry S. Truman admitted this. Acheson lamented in his letter: "The unfortunate but inescapable fact is that the ominous result of the civil war in China was beyond the control of the government of the United States .... Nothing that was left undone by this country has contributed to it. It was the product of internal Chinese forces, forces which this country tried to influence but could not."
At the time of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the then US administration could have pulled itself from the quagmire of China's civil war. But it did not do so. Instead, it adopted a policy of isolating and containing New China. When the Korean War broke out, it tore up all international agreements it had signed about not interfering in China's internal affairs. On June 27, 1950 President Truman announced: "I have ordered the Seventh Fleet to prevent any attack on Formosa (Taiwan). The US Seventh Fleet intruded into the Taiwan Straits and the US 13th Air Force was deployed in Taiwan. In December 1954 the US concluded with the Taiwan authorities a so-called mutual defense treaty, placing China's Taiwan Province under US "protection."
The erroneous policy of the US government of continued interference in China's internal affairs led to prolonged and intense confrontation in the Taiwan Straits area. The Taiwan question has hence become a major dispute between China and the United States.
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