Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker US Embassy Taipei 1957 Eisenhower in Taiwan 1959 Chiang Kai-shek, head of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party) President Dwight D. Eisenhower Yangmingshan, Taiwan signals intelligence post Mao Zedong Repression in Taiwan Mao Zedong & Richard Nixon Mao Zedong & Henry Kissinger "Ping-Pong diplomacy" left Chiang out Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon 1972 Jimmy Carter & Deng Xiaoping Ronald Reagan & Chiang Kai-shek in Taiwan in 1971 George W. Bush & Premier Wen Jiabao at White House 2003 Presidents Lee Teng-hui, Chen Shui-bian & Ma Ying-jeou Taiwan wants 66 F-16s from the US Gift to Taiwan: Tuan Tuan and Yuan Yuan (together means reunion in Chinese) China has not moved any of 1,500 missiles aimed at Taiwan Anti-Ma Ying-jeou rallies We must liberate Taiwan Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker