TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT
... We don’t advocate diplomatic relations with Taiwan, nor have we. ... ) But at a news conference on August 22, when Reagan was “still for ‘official relations’ with Taiwan-yes or no? ... ) August 25 Reagan issued a definitive statement in which he said “I would not pretend, as Carter does, that the relationship we have with Taiwan, enacted by our Congress, is not official. ... 59-64) Explaining that the “government-to-government” relations referred to the relationship governed by an act of congress and was therefore ‘official’ from the incessant restatement of views often ambiguous as they were emerged a pattern of dealing with the US-PRC-Taiwan relations which struggled to find coherent and consistent approach to foreign affairs (122) Advantages of the US “playing the china card” (123-125) 1.