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80 Pol. Sci. Q. 1 (1965)

handle is hein.journals/pclscceqry80 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume LXXX POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY SINO-AMERICAN RELATIONS AND THE FUTURE OF FORMOSA HINA'S world power position was substantially al- tered in 1964 by two developments, the French recog- nition of January and the explosion of a Chinese nu- clear device in October. The United States has been unable to react ellectively to either event; its China policy is fettered to the future of Formosa. When France recognized the Peking regime on January 27, 1964, the State Department formally stood on its established principles: The United States will stand firmly by its com- mitments to the government of the Republic of China [the Nationalist regime on Formosa] as well as all other countries in our common endeavor to prevent and deter agog-ession and to promote the interests of peace. The French recognition was admittedly something that the United States had fought hard to prevent. The State Department in that same com- muniqu6 said that the U. S. government had repeatedly voiced to Paris its reasons for believing the recognition to be an unfortunate step. President Charles de Gaulle had gone ahead regardless, and in April France and China for- mally appointed their respective ambassadors. As regards the explosion on the rim of the Taklamakan Desert, the State Department showed itself able to anticipate the event, but that is all; the intelligence seemingly led to no alteration of our standing China policy. The French action opened a new chapter in the history of Peking's relations with the rest of the world. The step could hardly be deemed hasty; the Communists by then had al- ready ruled the mainland nearly three-quarters as long as had the Nationalists before them. Up to the time Paris acted, M~arch 1965 Number 1

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