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Taiwan Relations Act: Legislative Re-Recognition, Carl L. Gable
Taiwan Relations Act: Legislative Re-Recognition, Carl L. Gable
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
The surprise and drama of President Carter's recognition of the People's Republic of China as "the sole legal government of China" have overshadowed the unique legal concepts on which his policy rests. Those concepts impact directly on private trade and investment transactions with Taiwan. They may also sound the death knell for traditional definitions of the term "recognition" in international law and diplomacy.
The recognition of a government such as the People's Republic of China (and the related termination of recognition of the Republic of China government) is a unique hybrid: a political act of the executive branch which directly …