• terminate, within three years, all defense treaties with South Korea and the Philippines, and withdraw all American military units from those countries by that deadline;
• rescind, within three years, the informal commitment to defend Taiwan;
• continue the policy of being willing to sell Taiwan conventional weapon systems;
• withdraw all ground forces from Japan within two years;
• reassess whether to continue stationing any air and naval units in Japan; and
• immediately commence discussions with Japan about replacing the U.S.-Japan security treaty with a more informal cooperative security arrangement.
• expand economic and limited security ties with China while pressing Beijing to accelerate democratic, human rights, and market reforms and to resolve international disputes peacefully;
• drop Washington’s implicit defense guarantee to Taiwan but permit defense contractors to sell Taipei any weapons it deems necessary for its defense (without government subsidies and loan guarantees); and
• remain aloof from other flashpoints that could turn into war, such as those on the Indian subcontinent.

• Asian Defense Commitments Cato
• East Asia and the Pacific
• Vietnam War
• Asia / Pacific  Heritage  Asia
• Asia (See this part of Chapter 18)

see also:

• Japan
• Korea
• China
• Taiwan