San Francisco Peace Treaty (Apr. 28, 1952)


Treaty of Taipei (aka Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty)   (Aug. 5, 1952)


USA - ROC Mutual Defense Treaty (March 3, 1955)
       cancelled as of Jan. 1, 1980


Taiwan Relations Act, (effective as of Jan. 1, 1979)


Treaty of Shimonoseki (Sino-Japanese War Peace Treaty)   (1895)


General Order No. 1, by General Douglas MacArthur, (Sept. 2, 1945)


Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States, (Dec. 26, 1934)

Commentary:  Questions of Sovereignty -- the Montevideo Convention and Territorial Cession


Commentary:  Taiwan and the United Nations

Tydings-McDuffie Act (Philippine Independence Act)   (March 24, 1934)


Three Joint Communiques of the United States of America and the People's Republic of China             First         Second         Third


Executive Order 13014 -- Maintaining Unofficial Relations With the People on Taiwan (Aug. 15, 1996)


Accession of Taiwan to the World Trade Organization, Public Law 106-286, (Enacted Oct. 10, 2000)


"One China" Policy Stabilizes Asia-Pacific Region, Powell Says (Oct. 25, 2004)


H.R. 4444, To authorize extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the PRC, and to establish a framework for relations between the United States and the PRC, (Jan. 24, 2000)


"The National Security and Foreign Policy Implications for the United States of Arms Exports to the People's Republic of China by Member States of the European Union," House Committee on International Relations, House Armed Services Committee, April 14, 2005


CRS Report, July 2007:  China/Taiwan: Evolution of the "One China" Policy


President Reagan's Six Assurances to Taiwan and Their Meaning Today


(INA) 8 USC 1101 Definitions


Five Types of Definitions


June 7, 1947 THE NATION article -- Taiwan: China's Unhappy Colony


Military Government and Martial Law, by William E. Birkhimer, 3rd edition, (1914)

General Scott's Order in Mexico City, Sept. 17, 1847

United States v. Rice, 17 U.S. 246 (1819)


Military Jurisdiction and Military Commissions



Other Treaties Involving Territorial Acquisition


Louisiana Purchase Treaty, 1803


Treaty of Ghent, 1814


Treaty with Spain, 1819 [Florida]


The Treaty of Annexation, 1844 [Texas]


Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848 [California, etc.]


Gadsden Purchase Treaty, 1853


Treaty concerning the Cession of the Russian Possessions in North America, 1867 [Alaska]


Treaty of Paris (aka Spanish American Peace Treaty), 1899 [Puerto Rico, Guam, the Philippines, Cuba]


Convention between the United States and Denmark for cession of the Danish West Indies, 1917 [Virgin Islands]


Territorial acquisitions of the United States [Wiki]