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Taiwan: Annual Arms Sales Process (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised June 5, 2004
Report Number RS20365
Report Type Report
Authors Shirley A. Kan, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

This CRS Report discusses the low-profile annual arms talks process that successive Administrations used from the early 1980s to 2001 in determining arms sales to Taiwan, which are governed by the Taiwan Relations Act. The discussion is based on interviews in 1998 and 1999 with U.S. and Taiwan observers as well as U.S. and Taiwan news reports. This report on the process will not be updated. (On April 24, 2001, President George W. Bush announced that he would drop this annual arms talks process in favor of one with considerations on an "as-needed basis." See also CRS Report RL30957 , Taiwan: Major U.S. Arms Sales Since 1990 .)