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...stepping up a development program for major weapons. Since the U.S. was terminating its 1954 mutual defense treaty with Taiwan, said Sun, the republic had no choice but to "establish a more self-sustaining defense industry." It was a popular move. In front of the main Buddhist temple in Taipei, nuns began collecting contributions for national defense from passersby. In just a week the public donated a total of $17 million to the government for the purchase of weapons...
Taiwan's defense forces stayed on alert, and police continued a round-the-clock guard of the U.S. embassy and of Taipei residential areas favored by foreigners. There were a few anti-U.S. demonstrations by students, but Americans otherwise were treated courteously and without ill-will. Ostensibly out of fear that normalization would become a burning campaign issue, the government postponed elections for vacant seats in both the National Assembly and Legislative Council scheduled for December 23. Up to that point, the campaign had been the most open in the island's history, with opposition candidates freely...
...angry mob threw eggs and rocks at the U.S. embassy on Taipei's Chung Hsiao West Road. Some 2,000 tried to storm an American compound and were driven back by Marines with tear gas. Near by, students daubed slogans on white sheets taped to the walls. One message: "We protest American recognition of the Communist bandits. We will oppose Communism to the death...
...diplomats therefore must try to come up with some formula by which the American embassy in Taipei would be turned into a nongovernmental institution that could still perform all the functions of an embassy. The U.S. needs to watch out for $7.5 billion in annual trade with Taiwan and $500 million in American investments there (Taiwan is the U.S.'s twelfth largest trading partner; Communist China is the 23rd). In addition, the Administration is determined to provide for the maintenance of Taiwan's 500,000-man armed forces...
Even if a deal with the Communists can be worked out, the act of transferring formal recognition from Taipei to Peking would raise a host of legal and legislative problems. The U.S. is tied to Taiwan by 59 bilateral treaties and agreements, plus many more multilateral ones. How many of these pacts could or should survive "derecognition"? What new legislation would be required to keep them in force? How could the U.S. continue to supply arms to a government whose legitimacy it no longer formally recognizes? Government lawyers have been preparing briefs on these and other questions, and the State...