ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the cooperation between the United States and Japan in the Shimonoseki Treaty, the San Francisco Peace Treaty (SFPT), and the Taiwan Peace Treaty (TPT) that turned Taiwan from a defensive bastion of China, particularly after 1874-1884 when Taiwan was invaded by Japan and France, into one of Japan and/or the United States. It explores the history of the Asia-Pacific region, in order to shed light on the shifts in Taiwan's formal sovereignty status in 1895 and in 1952. The establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the retreat of the Republic of China (ROC's) central government to Taiwan was a setback to the United States in the Cold War environment. When China suffered horrible defeat in the Sino-Japanese War, the United Kingdom's attempt to mediate cooperatively with the United States, Russia, Germany, France, and others was abandoned, because each of those countries feared that the United Kingdom would negotiate to its own advantage.
