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4 - Termination of the Mainland-Based Forward Strategy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2024

Kuan-Jen Chen
Affiliation:
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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The interservice competition for leadership in the Pacific made it impossible for Washington to reach a consensus on strategic deployment in maritime East Asia. What really brought about the US Navy’s renouncement of its mainland-based strategy and its subsequent adoption of an offshore defensive perimeter was not the achievement of a consensus with the other services but the Chinese Communist Party’s occupation of the whole of mainland China in 1949. At this point, the United States had no choice but to withdraw all its naval forces from Qingdao, which had been the emblem of the Navy’s forward-deployed, offensive, and mainland-based strategic thinking in East Asia. China’s split across the Taiwan Strait left the structure of international politics in maritime East Asia indeterminate.

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Charting America's Cold War Waters in East Asia
Sovereignty, Local Interests, and International Security
, pp. 102 - 127
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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