When the United States signed bilateral security pacts with South Korea in 1953 and with the Nationalist government on Taiwan in 1954, it had two core goals. Externally, the aim was to support staunchly anti-communist regimes as a bulwark against Soviet expansion. But as political scientist Victor Cha explains in his book Powerplay: The Origins […]
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