1. I only briefly discuss U.S. foreign and national security policy toward China and Taiwan during the Cold War. For more thorough and detailed treatments see, e.g., Richard C. Bush, At Cross Purposes: U.S.Taiwan Relations since 1942 (Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2004);
2. Dennis Van Vranken Hickey, United States-Taiwan Security Ties: From Cold War to Beyond Containment (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1994);
3. Martin L. Lasater, The Taiwan Conundrum in U.S. China Policy (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2000);
4. Winberg Chai, “The Taiwan Factor in U.S.-China Relations: An Interpretation,” Asian Affairs: An American Review 29 (2002): 131–147.
5. Georgy Zinoviev, “The Taiwan Question and the History of Forming a Normative Base for American-Chinese Relations,” Far Eastern Affairs 4 (2003): 58–73.