| This history will analyze the Nationalist Government's pursuit of a “one-China” policy by examining the conduct of Nationalist Chinese diplomacy and the US security interests in East Asia, filling a gap left by standard accounts of Sino-American relations. Examining the conduct of Nationalist Chinese diplomacy helps clarify how decisions were made and under what circumstances, and to identify the importance of various participants in the development, formulation, and implementation of specific foreign policy decision. Also, this study argues that the long-term implications of the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty was a formation of a de facto “two-China” arrangement designed by Washington and implemented by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles with his hidden-instrumentality crisis management style. |
