U.S.-China Military Contacts: Issues for Congress (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781503020016)

This CRS report, updated as warranted, discusses policy issues regarding military-to-military (mil-to-mil) contacts with the People's Republic of China (PRC) and provides a record of major contacts and crises since 1993. The United States suspended military contacts with China and imposed sanctions on arms sales in response to the Tiananmen Crackdown in 1989. In 1993, the Clinton Administration reengaged with the top PRC leadership, including China's military, the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Renewed military exchanges with the PLA have not regained the closeness reached in the 1980s, when U.S.-PRC strategic cooperation against the Soviet Union included U.S. arms sales to China. Improvements and deteriorations in overall bilateral relations have affected military contacts, which were close in 1997-1998 and 2000, but marred by the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait crisis, mistaken NATO bombing of a PRC embassy in 1999, the EP- 3 aircraft collision crisis in 2001, and aggressive maritime confrontations (including in 2009).

Author: Shirley Ann Kan
ISBN-10: 1503020010
ISBN-13: 9781503020016
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/31/2014
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.18d