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Mutual Defense
Treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of
China
The Parties to this
Treaty,
Reaffirming their faith in the
purposes and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all
peoples and all Governments, and desiring to strengthen the fabric
of peace in the West Pacific Area,
Recalling
with mutual pride the relationship which brought their two peoples
together in a common bond of sympathy and mutual ideals to fight
side by side against irnperialist aggression during the last
war,
Desiring to declare publicly and formally
their sense of unity and their common determination to defend
themselves against external armed attack, so that no potential
aggressor could be under the illusion that either of them stands
alone in the West Pacific Area, and
Desiring
further to strengthen their present efforts for collective defense
for the preservation of peace and security pending the development
of a more comprehensive system of regional security in the West
Pacific Area,
Have agreed as
follows:
Article
1
The Parties
undertake, as set forth in the Charter of the United Nations, to
settle any international dispute in which they may be involved by
peaceful means in such a manner that international peace, security
and justice are not endangered and to refrain in their international
relations from the threat or use of force in any manner inconsistent
with the purposes of the United Nations.
Article
2
In order more
effectively to achieve the objective of this Treaty, the Parties
separately and jointly by self-help and mutual aid will maintain and
develop their individual and collective capacity to resist armed
attack and communist subversive activities directed from without
against their territorial integrity and political stability.
Article
3
The Parties
undertake to strengthen their free institutions and to cooperate
with each other in the development of economic progress and social
well-being and to further their individual and collective efforts
toward these ends.
Article
4
The Parties,
through their Foreign Ministers or their deputies, will consult
together from time to time regarding the implementation of this
Treaty.
Article
5
Each Party
recognizes that an armed attack in the West Pacific Area directed
against the territories of either of the Parties would be dangerous
to its own peace and safety and declares that it would act to meet
the common danger in accordance with its constitutional
processes.
Any such armed attack and all
measures taken as a result thereof shall be immediately reported to
the Security Council of the United Nations. Such measures shall be
terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures
necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.
Article
6
For the purposes
of Articles 2 and 5, the terms "territorial" and "territories" shall
mean in respect of the Republic of China, Taiwan and the Pescadores;
and in respect of the United States of America, the island
territories in the West Pacific under its jurisdiction. The
provisions of Articles 2 and 5 will be applicable to such other
territories as may be determined by mutual agreement.
Article
7
The Government of
the Republic of China grants, and the Government of the United
States of America accepts, the right to dispose such United States
land, air, and sea forces in and about Taiwan and the Pescadores as
may be required for their defense, as determined by mutual
agreement.
Article
8
This Treaty does
not affect and shall not be interpreted as affecting in any way the
rights and obligations of the Parties under the Charter of the
United Nations or the responsibility of the United Nations for the
maintenance of international peace and security.
Article
9
This Treaty shall
be ratified by the Republic of China and the United States of
America in accordance with their respective constitutional processes
and will come into force when instruments of ratification thereof
have been exchanged by them at Taipei.
Article
10
This Treaty shall
remain in force indefinitely. Either Party may terminate it one year
after notice has been given to the other
party.
IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, The undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this
Treaty.
DONE in duplicate, in
the Chinese and English languages, at Washington on this Second day
of the Twelfth month of the Forty-third Year of the Republic of
China, corresponding to the Second day of December of the Year One
Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-four.
For the Republic of
China:
GEORGE K.C.
YEH
For the United States
of America:
JOHN FOSTER
DULLES
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