1. For one early articulation of the pivot, see The White House Office of the Press Secretary, “Remarks by President Obama to the Australian Parliament” (November 17, 2011). For two overviews of the pivot,
2. see Mark A. Manyin, Stephen Daggett, Ben Dolven, Susan V. Lawrence, Michael F. Martin, Ronald O’Rourke, and Bruce Vaughn, Pivot to the Pacific? The Obama Administration’s “Rebalancing” toward Asia, Congressional Research Service Report 7–5700, March 28, 2012;
3. and Robert G. Sutter, Michael E. Brown, and Timothy J. A. Adamson, with Mike M. Mochizuki and Deepa Ollapally, Balancing Acts: The U.S. Rebalance and Asia-Pacific Security, The Sigur Center for Asian Studies, The George Washington University, August 2013, accessed at
http://www2.gwu.edu
/~sigur/assets/docs/BalancingActs_Compiled1.pdf.
4. On views in Washington, see Nancy Bernkopf Tucker, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the United States (New York: Twayne, 1994) and Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997);
5. and Richard C. Bush, At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations since 1942 (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2004). On mainland views,