From the TRA View to U.S. National Interests on Taiwan Issue－ the Factors of the Rise of China

• Main Authors: Siang-Wei Ciou, 邱祥維
• Other Authors: Liang-Chih Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/6j9w33

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 戰略暨國際事務研究所 === 102 === Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) was enacted that U.S. Congress actually in view of avoid establishment of Sino-US diplomatic relations injure Taiwan’s interests. On 10 April 1979, TRA was signed and announced into the U.S. domestic law by the President. TRA has been performed for more than 30 years, it has gone through different periods of change in the international system, and the translations of U.S. - China- Taiwan relations. As a result of the TRA leaves great room for interpretation, the U.S. government through the different interpretations of the TRA that to maintain the status quo on the Taiwan Strait, and promotes U.S. national interests in this area. In recent years, China’s overall performance has been the center of the world, especially the dramatic economic and military growth, the U.S. began to realize that the issue of “the rise of China”, and China's challenge to U.S. hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region. However, the U.S. fall into the economic downturn and the war in Afghanistan, it result in the U.S. power has declined relative to China’s. On global issues, the U.S. needs more China’s power to solve together, and caused China’s has more bargaining clips on the Taiwan issue. Therefore, in the case of the rise of China and the decline of American hegemony, the U.S. government intended to use the TRA to maintain their own national interests in the Asia Pacific region, which will be more difficult than before. In the future, TRA will encounter many difficulties under the translations of U.S. - China- Taiwan relations, which difficulties will be an important factor of affect the attitude of the United States on TRA. This study attempts to base its theoretical foundation on the Structural Realism of Kenneth N. Waltz, and try to observe the influence of U.S. policy toward Taiwan under the translations of U.S. - China- Taiwan relations, and furthermore, to discuss how the rise of China affects TRA. In the future, TRA as a policy to maintain of the interests of Taiwan–United States relations, whether it can continue to shows itself importance, or will be face the crisis of defeat.