Editing Political status of Taiwan (section)

==== 1950–1953 – Korean War and U.S. intervention ====
At the start of 1950, [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Harry S. Truman]] appeared to accept the idea that sovereignty over Taiwan was already settled when the [[United States Department of State]] stated that "In keeping with these <nowiki>[Cairo and Potsdam]</nowiki> declarations, Formosa was surrendered to Generalissimo Chiang-Kai Shek, and for the past four years, the United States and Other Allied Powers have accepted the exercise of Chinese authority over the Island."<ref>{{cite report |title=Statement by President Truman |chapter=United States Policy Toward Formosa |series=Department of State Bulletin |date=16 January 1950 |volume=22 |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/departmentofstat2250unit#page/78/mode/2up}}</ref>
However, after the outbreak of the [[Korean War]], Truman decided to "neutralize" Taiwan, claiming that it could otherwise trigger another world war. In June 1950, President Truman, who had previously given only passive support to Chiang Kai-shek and was prepared to see Taiwan fall into the hands of the CCP, vowed to stop the spread of communism and sent the [[U.S. Seventh Fleet]] into the [[Taiwan Strait]] to prevent the PRC from attacking Taiwan, but also to prevent the ROC from attacking mainland China. He then declared that "the determination of the future status of Formosa must await the restoration of security in the Pacific, a peace settlement with Japan, or consideration by the United Nations."<ref>{{Citation
|url=http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/viewpapers.php?pid=800
|title=Statement by the President on the Situation in Korea
|date=27 June 1950
|publisher=Truman library
|access-date=2007-10-06
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109112156/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/viewpapers.php?pid=800
|archive-date=9 November 2014
|url-status=live
}}</ref> President Truman later reaffirmed the position "that all questions affecting Formosa be settled by peaceful means as envisaged in the [[United Nations Charter|Charter of the United Nations]]" in his special message to Congress in July 1950.<ref>{{Citation
|url=http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/viewpapers.php?pid=822
|title=Special Message to the Congress Reporting on the Situation in Korea
|date=19 July 1950
|access-date=2007-10-06
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222807/http://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/viewpapers.php?pid=822
|archive-date=27 September 2007
|url-status=live
}}</ref> The PRC denounced his moves as flagrant interference in the internal affairs of China.

On 8 September 1950, President Truman ordered [[John Foster Dulles]], then Foreign Policy Advisor to the [[U.S. Secretary of State]], to carry out his decision on "neutralizing" Taiwan in drafting the [[Treaty of Peace with Japan]] ([[San Francisco]] Peace Treaty) of 1951. According to [[George H. Kerr]]'s memoir ''[[Formosa Betrayed (1965 book)|Formosa Betrayed]]'', Dulles devised a plan whereby Japan would first merely renounce its sovereignty over Taiwan without a recipient country to allow the sovereignty over Taiwan to be determined together by the United States, the United Kingdom, [[Soviet Union]], and the Republic of China on behalf of other nations on the peace treaty. The question of Taiwan would be taken into the United Nations (of which the ROC was [[China and the United Nations|still part]]) if these four parties could not reach an agreement within one year.{{cn|date=August 2024}}