1955 жылғы Формоза резолюциясы және Тайвань қорғанысы

The Formosa Resolution of 1955 was a joint resolution passed by the U. S. Senate and signed by U. S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on January 29, 1955, to counteract the threat of an invasion of Taiwan (Republic of China) by the People's Republic of China (PRC). The resolution gave the U. S. president the authority "to employ the Armed Forces of the United States as he deems necessary for the specific purpose of securing and protecting Formosa and the Pescadores against armed attack [by the Communists]". The resolution was formulated amid the Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–1955), which was a brief period of armed conflict that involved incursions made by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on the islands in the Taiwan Strait controlled by the Kuomintang (KMT) led Republic of China (ROC). A latent response by the United Nations Security Council regarding these developments prompted U. S. President Eisenhower to request the resolution in January 1955.

Formosa and its nearby islands were under Qing rule until the dynasty ceded their sovereignty to Japan in 1895 following its loss to the Japanese in the first Sino Japanese War. Half a century later, in the midst of WWII, the Cairo Declaration of 1943 established that jurisdiction over the islands would be returned to China should Japan surrender. Following Japan's defeat, the United States, which fought with China as allies and had established diplomatic relations with country through the Treaty of Wanghia, formally acknowledged its right to reclaim all territories (including Formosa) stolen from it by Japan. In a statement of neutrality given by U. S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson in January 1950, the U. S. Government declared it was "not going to get involved militarily in any way on the Island".

In the early 1950s however, peaceful relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China began to deteriorate. In the months succeeding the declaration of neutrality, the PRC seized all U. S. consular property in Beijing, signed the 1950 Treaty of Friendship, Alliance, and Mutual Assistance with the Soviet Union, and began growing its forces at Chekiang and Fukien, opposite Formosa. These developments, along with the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950, prompted President Eisenhower to order the American navy to position itself in the Taiwan Strait to prevent a possible attack on Formosa by the PRC. The ROC had always been perceived by Western powers as China's only legitimate government and had thus held its seat at the United Nations since the organization's establishment. Following the Communist Party of China's victory in the Chinese Civil War, the official establishment of the PRC raised questions of who China's legal representative at the UN should be. The U. S. voted against a seat for the PRC at the UN which further strained relations tensions between the two powers.

On January 6, 1955, President Eisenhower submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratify the Mutual Defense Treaty between the U. S. and the ROC, which outlined an armed attack in the West Pacific area directed against Formosa and the Pescadores territories. When the Chinese Communist Party's forces seized control of Inchaing Island, located 210 miles north of Taiwan in mid January 1955, calls for U. S. military intervention intensified as the CCP's continued attacks towards Quemoy and Matsu, extending armed skirmishes between the two governments as far as mainland Chinese ports. These developments prompted action from President Eisenhower. On January 24, Eisenhower requested permission from Congress to use military force to defend Taiwan. By the next day, January 25, 1955, the House approved a resolution requested by President Eisenhower that authorized the president to defend Formosa (Taiwan) and the Pescadores Islands by a vote of 410–3 in the House of Representatives. On January 28, 1955, the Senate approved the resolution, 85–3. On the same day the U. S. Senate approved this resolution, the Formosa problem had finally gained the attention of the U. N. Security Council. However, due to the PRC's refusal to join the discussion, the issue was effectively dropped from the agenda of the U. N. Regardless, with the approval of the House and the Senate, President Eisenhower moved forward by signing the Resolution on January 29, 1955. The U. S. officially adopted the Formosa Resolution, a purported mechanism to prevent another crisis in the Taiwan Strait, as was experienced in the First Taiwan Strait Crisis (1954–1955). The Resolution empowered President Eisenhower to fully defend Formosa by granting him the authority to employ U. S. armed forces in the Taiwan Strait. While the Resolution authorized the U. S. president to use force to defend Formosa, it did not explicitly express an overt support for the ROC's government. The Resolution was an attempt to prevent further military conflict between the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China without explicitly siding with Formosa.

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Despite the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis of 1996, which involved Chinese missile tests in the waters near Taiwan, Taiwan held their first free presidential vote in 1996. These missile tests were meant to sway Taiwanese voters to vote against the pro independence candidates such as incumbent Kuomintang president Lee Teng hui and the Democratic Progressive Party's Peng Ming min. Ultimately, Lee won the election by a large margin in March 1996.

By the 2010s, the U. S. had recognized the PRC's China as the one and only China for decades. However, when Donald J. Trump won the U. S. presidential election in 2016, Trump broke the U. S. code of conduct towards China when he spoke with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing wen in a telephone call. This raised questions over the U. S.' commitment to its One China policy. President Trump attempted to alleviate these doubts during a call on February 9, 2017, with China's paramount leader Xi Jinping, in which he restated he would honor the One China policy. Despite honoring this policy, the U. S. still maintains unofficial ties with Taiwan, including the provisions of defense aid.