Draft:Pacific Pact

1937

The Pacific Pact was a proposed non-aggression pact advanced by Australian prime minister Joseph Lyons in 1937. It was to

1949

The Pacific Pact was a proposed anti-communist military alliance put forward in 1949, as a response to the final stages of the Chinese Communist Revolution. It envisaged a formal alliance between the United States and the governments of the Philippines, the Republic of China and the Republic of Korea, with Australia, India, Indonesia and New Zealand also to be

Origins and support

The pact was supported by Australian prime minister Ben Chifley.

Opposition and criticism

The proposed pact

Analysis

over 100 pages of coverage in Foreign Relations of the United States. 


modelled on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and first put forward in 1949.

The pact's main proponents were President Syngman Rhee of South Korea, President Chiang Kai-shek of the Republic of China, and President Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines.

In July 1949, Chiang visited Quirino in Manila and a joint communique was issued calling for the creation of a "Pacific Union"; Syngman Rhee also endorsed the proposal.[1]

The Baguio Conference of 1950 was attended by

The idea of a pact was revived in 1950, when a working group at the United States Department of State

The Republic of China abandoned the Pacific Pact after the signing of the Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty in 1954, which

References

  • Dobbs, Charles M. (1984). "The pact that never was: the Pacific Pact of 1949". Journal of Northeast Asian Studies. 3 (4): 29–42. doi:10.1007/BF03025158.
  • Mabon, David W. (1988). "Elusive agreements: the Pacific Pact proposals of 1949–1951". Pacific Historical Review. 57 (2): 147–177. doi:10.2307/4492264. JSTOR 4492264.
  • Park, Junghyun (2015). "Frustrated alignment: the Pacific Pact proposals from 1949 to 1954 and South Korea–Taiwan relations". International Journal of Asian Studies. 12 (2): 217–237. doi:10.1017/S1479591415000157.

Category:Proposed treaties

  1. ^ Mabon 1988, p. 153.

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