出刊年月/Date of Publishing

1991.09

所屬卷期/Vol. & No.   第21卷第3期 Vol. 21, No. 3

類型/Type                 研究論文 Research Article

篇名/Title
美國親國民政府國會議員對杜魯門政府中國政策影響之評估
The China Bloc and the Truman Administration’s China Policy

作者/Author
趙綺娜 Ena Chao

頁碼/Pagination
pp. 83-129

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Abstract
Although the pro-Nationalist congressmen were highly visible and vocal in the Truman period, they were rather peripheral to the actual making of the administration’s China policy. Every important decision related to China was less a response to the pro-Nationalist critics than a product of the administration’s own view of U.S.-China relations and its own calculation as to how best to use limited resources to block the global Soviet advance.

Four factors explain why the pro-Nationalist legislators failed to exercise significant influence over the administration policy-making. In the U.S. constitutional structure, the President and his advisers can better undertake foreign policy initiatives, leaving Congress to react to those initiatives. As a minority in Congress, the China bloc seldom received its colleagues’ substantial support in requesting for China aid. To a degree the China bloc lawmakers shared the Truman administration’s view toward America’s role to contain communism in Asia and Europe. Their disputes with the administration were fundamentally over the State Department’s relative neglect of communist threat in Asia. The China bloc’s cause was further weakened by the Nationalist military incompetence as well as by the corruption of its leaders.

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DOI
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學門分類/Subject
史學 History