Taiwan–United States relations

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Taiwan–United States relations are unofficial and informal. Both sides maintain representative offices functioning as de facto embassies. Taiwan is represented by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States, while the U.S. government is represented by the American Institute in Taiwan. Taiwan is the United States' ninth-largest trading partner. The U.S. has viewed Taiwan as geostrategically important given its key location in the first island chain. The United States follows its Taiwan Relations Act (TRA), which allows it to have relations with the Taiwanese people and their government, whose name is not specified in that law. As stipulated by the TRA, the United States remains the main provider of arms to Taiwan. The relations have been further grounded in the Six Assurances, which was a response to the third communiqué issued when the United States established diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1979. Over the past four decades...

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