[20201008]IF11665_里根总统对台湾的六项保证.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov October 8, 2020President Reagans Six Assurances to TaiwanIntroduction In July 1982, as his government negotiated with the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) over a joint communiqu on Taiwan arms sales, President Ronald Reagan offered Taiwan assurances about what the United States had not agreed to in those negotiations. These statements have come to be known as the Six Assurances. (See Table 1 below.) A senior Reagan Administration official wove language from the assurances through his testimony before Congress on August 17, 1982, the day of the communiqus release, but successive administrations kept the precise text of the assurances classified, creating lingering uncertainties about their content. With its declassification of an internal 1982 presidential memorandum (in 2019) and two 1982 State Department cables (in 2020), the Trump Administration has made public definitive language for the Six Assurances, as well as new information about the context in which they were offered. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs David R. Stilwell has portrayed the declassification decisions as part of an effort to bolster Taiwan and “preve