Alliances, reliability, and interdependence -- Forming alliances in Asia, 1949-1951 -- Unleashing and re-leashing Chiang Kai-shek, 1953-1954 -- Allies encourage limits on US loyalty to Formosa, 1954-1955 -- Revision of the US-Japan alliance, 1955-1960 -- Negotiating the reversion of Okinawa, 1967-1969. |