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[[File:AIT NOC dedication ceremony - Flickr id 29162044008.jpg|thumb|Taipei Main Office of the American Institute in Taiwan, with the [[flag of the United States]] flown out front.]]
While the United States has had formal relations with the PRC whose government it has recognized as the sole legitimate representative of China, it has simultaneously maintained [[Taiwan–United States relations|unofficial relations with Taiwan]] over which, it avers, China has no sovereign rights.<ref>{{Cite web |author=[[Steve Chabot]] |title=Text - H.Con.Res.88 - 114th Congress (2015-2016): Reaffirming the Taiwan Relations Act and the Six Assurances as cornerstones of United States-Taiwan relations. |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/88/text/ih |accessdate=2019-04-14 |date=2016-05-17 |work= [[United States Congress]] |quote= Whereas the Six Assurances are guidelines to conduct relations between the United States and Taiwan and stipulate that the United States would not—......(6) formally recognize Chinese sovereignty over Taiwan. |archive-date=2020-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217181811/https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/88/text/ih |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=[[Michael Green (political expert)|Michael J. Green]]|url=https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-us-one-china-policy-and-why-does-it-matter |title=What Is the U.S. "One China" Policy, and Why Does it Matter? |publisher=[[Center for Strategic and International Studies|CSIS]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220423100948/https://www.csis.org/analysis/what-us-one-china-policy-and-why-does-it-matter |url-status=live|archive-date=23 April 2022|date=13 January 2017|access-date=29 April 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38285354 |title=What is the 'One China' policy? |date=10 February 2017 |work=BBC News |access-date=9 January 2019 |language=en-GB |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109041259/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-38285354 |archive-date=9 January 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> A cornerstone in the bilateral relationship is the [[Taiwan Relations Act]] through which the United States has maintained its policy of strategic ambiguity. Prior to the normalization of diplomatic ties with the PRC, the US was a treaty ally of Taiwan under the [[Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty]]. The treaty essentially prevented the [[People's Liberation Army]] from taking over the island of Taiwan, prolonged and assisted the Republic of China in maintaining legitimacy as the sole government of the whole of mainland China until the early 1970s and also helped US policymakers to shape the policy of containment in East Asia together with South Korea and Japan against the spread of communism.
The recent decade has seen an increasing frequency of [[List of US arms sales to Taiwan|US arms sales to Taiwan]] alongside expanding commercial ties. On December 16, 2015, the Obama administration announced a deal to sell $1.83 billion worth of arms to the [[Republic of China Armed Forces|Armed Forces of Taiwan]], a year and eight months after U.S. Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act Affirmation and Naval Vessel Transfer Act of 2014 to allow the sale of Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates to Taiwan. The deal would include the sale of two decommissioned U.S. Navy frigates, anti-tank missiles, Assault Amphibious Vehicles, and FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, amid the territorial disputes in the South China Sea.
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