Richard C. Bush, ’69
At Cross Purposes: U.S.-Taiwan Relations Since 1942.
Paperback, 320 pages, M. E. Sharpe, March 2004.
Richard Bush is a senior fellow and director of the Center
for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington,
D.C. From 1997 to 2002, he served as chairman of the board and managing director
of the American
Institute in Taiwan,
the non-profit private corporation established after the United States changed
its diplomatic recognition of China from Taipei to Beijing in 1979.
Alan M. Wachman of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
writes: “Richard Bush couples an insider’s exquisite sense of nuance
about diplomatic process — few have been as intimately engaged in managing
the U.S. relationship with Taiwan as he — with meticulous documentary
research….Serious students of Sino-U.S. relations who fail to
consider the corrective clarifications Bush offers do so at their own peril.”
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