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China has nuclear weapons capable of reaching America, prompting a Chinese general to ask, "Would the U.S. sacrifice Los Angeles to protect Taipei?"
Following 1949's communist victory in China, Chiang Kai-shek and his defeated government fled to Taiwan. In contrast to the ongoing oppressive rule of the Chinese government, Taiwan went on to become a vibrant democracy.
Three decades later, Jimmy Carter betrayed Taiwan by breaking diplomatic relations, instead establishing them with China. Though relations between the U.S. and Taiwan remained cordial, a belligerent Beijing continues to see Taiwan as a renegade province.
In the past five years, a nuclear-armed China has run eleven military exercises simulating the invasion of Taiwan. At the same time, the Taiwan Relations Act affirms the U.S. defense of Taiwan, making the question of sacrificing Los Angeles for Taiwan not just one of political posturing.
Utilizing his long-held access to top officials in the U.S. and Taiwan, Bruce Herschensohn shows why Taiwan will remain a critical theater for American policy in the 21st century.
"Bruce Herschensohn is an astute observer of the current world scene. In Taiwan: The Threatened Democracy, he sheds new light on one of the Cold War's most intractable - and dangerous - legacies."
-- Rush Limbaugh, The Most Listened-to Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host
"Bruce Herschensohn has long watched China - as did his friend Richard Nixon - and has always had the freedom of the Chinese near the top of his concerns. He was one of the few who saw the PRC's plans for Hong Kong clearly, and his observations on the future of Taiwan will be sober and accurate, as well as highly readable."
-- Hugh Hewitt, Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host
From the Publisher
If Taiwan was attacked, what would the U.S. do? It's that provocative question that Bruce Herschensohn seeks to answer in the compelling, timely and disturbing book Taiwan: The Threatened Democracy. Herschensohn focuses on U.S. relations with Taiwan and China from the Maoist era through the Cold War to the current day, and projects what the future might hold. Taiwan has long been a flashpoint in the struggle between the communist and free worlds. As a possible armed conflict looms, a "domestic war" also exists between the White House, actively supporting Taiwan, and the State Department, leaning heavily to the Chinese point of view.
A highly-placed official in both the Nixon and Reagan administrations, Bruce Herschensohn is uniquely qualified to analyze this thorny aspect of U.S. foreign policy. He has traveled to Taiwan and China regularly since 1964 and has interviewed many of the top military and civilian officials in both countries. Among the new facts revealed in Taiwan: The Threatened Democracy is the existence of a personal letter written by former President Nixon to Jimmy Carter after Carter gave diplomatic recognition to the People's Republic of China.
While Nixon's letter explicitly warned Carter of the pressures his decision would place on Taiwan (and the U.S.), the former president refused to publicly censure Carter's decision. Though still in disgrace, Nixon observed a tradition that Carter has disdained -- that of refraining from publicly criticizing a sitting president.
Full of such never-before-revealed facts, Taiwan: The Threatened Democracy will provide welcome insight into the future of the turbulent - and increasingly acrimonious - relationship between the United States and China.
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