...importance of our commitments to Taiwan and instead inserted the following more specific language : * * * the United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such quantities as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability. The...

...of Section 3 of the Taiwan Relations Act. Specifically, it reflects the provision of Section 3 (a) that the united States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and services as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability and...

...social or economic system, of the people of Taiwan." That "capacity" clearly requires a readiness to "make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such quantities as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability."...

...provisions for arms sales to Taiwan: 1. In furtherance of the policy set forth in Section 2 of this Act, the United States will make available to Taiwan such...articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necesary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability. 2. The president and the...

...communique in the US court system — specifies that the US: ". . . vill make available to Tai:ran such defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taivan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability. The President and the Congress shall determine...

...Act. With regard to our defense relations, again the Congress acted with forethought. Section 3(a) of the Taiwan Relations Act states that "the United...make available to Taiwan such defense articles and services in such quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a self-defense capability"....

...president in spring 1999, Oilman again cited TRA language, noting that the law requires Taiwan be "provided defense articles and defense services in such quantity as may be necessary for sufficient self-defense capability." Gilman demanded the release of a specific system - ground-based...

...in Section C in the Act that "(a) In furtherance of the policy set forth in Section B of this Act, the United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in such Taiwan Kaohsiung Xiaogang Airport quantity as may be necessary to enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient...

...Taiwan have been able to move forward dramatically in the past twenty-five years. The Act, by "making available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services in. such quantity as may be necessary," assured that the people of Taiwan did not have to live in fear that a Bamboo Curtain would suddenly...

...practice, if Congress wishes to require an action by the executive, it uses the word "shall." To say that "the United States will make available to Taiwan such defense articles and defense services" represents less a mandate for action than it does a statement of intention.57 Second, there is a substantive...