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Why USA have to protect Taiwan? It's this famous part
On September 21, 1950, Secretary of State Dean Acheson addressed a letter to the Secretary General of the United Nations explaining the US government's policy toward Taiwan and certain offshore islands, like the Penghus. He began by citing the December 1, 1943, Cairo declaration stating Formosa would be returned to “Republic of China.” Thereafter, the July 1945 Potsdam declaration confirmed Cairo's terms and in General Order No. 1 the Japanese forces in Formosa were ordered to surrender to “Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek.” From 1945 onward, the Republic of China retained administrative control over Formosa, the Penghus, plus a number of other offshore islands. On April 28, 1952, Japan signed a peace treaty renouncing its claim to Formosa and the Penghus, although “in whose favor Japan was renouncing was not stipulated.” Thereafter, Japan and the ROC signed their own peace treaty, effective August 5, 1952, where Japan repeated this renunciation, but again without saying which state it was ceding its rights to.
While title over Formosa and the Penghus might be vague, the ROC had occupied these areas continuously since 1945: “There is no question that the Republic of China is today and at all times since the effective date of the Japanese Peace Treaty, has been in effective possession of and exercising administrative control over Formosa and the Pescadores.”
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