-a treaty of mutual defense-will be broken. Washington now formally rec- ognizes the regime in Peking as "China." Yet, for almost three decades, the United States was anti-Communist Taiwan's indis- pensable ally. The Americans supplied the late Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime with military backing, money, and, in the UN, support for its claim to represent all China. Can Taiwan's prosperous people survive the rupture with Washington? Here, Taiwan scholar Parris Chang...