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21 mars 2019
- handle: 10670/1.olr2t6
- isbn: 9781783744947
- eisbn: 9791036525049
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Andrew Kelly, « 7. A Horrible Dilemma in the Taiwan Straits », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.olr2t6
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While Australian, New Zealand and American delegates met in Manila to finalise SEATO in September 1954, another crisis broke out in the Taiwan Straits after the People’s Republic of China (PRC) began shelling the Nationalist-held offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Even though by sheer geographical size and position alone it would be unthinkable that a global war might erupt over such small islands, there was a very real possibility that any miscalculation by the United States could spark a...