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Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty
1954Dec, 2

The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.

The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, formally Mutual Defense Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of China was a defense pact signed between the United States and the Republic of China (Taiwan) effective from 1955 to 1980. It was intended to defend the island of Taiwan from invasion by the People's Republic of China. Some of its content was carried over to the Taiwan Relations Act of 1979.

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