ThirdTerm
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President Carter nullified the mutual defence treaty between the US and Taiwan in 1979 and America is no longer obliged to intervene on Taiwan's behalf even if Taiwan were attacked by Communist China but a similar treaty is still active between Japan and the US and the US State Department confirmed that a conflict over the disputed Japanese islands will trigger Article 5 of the mutual defence treaty by which the US may intervene militarily to confront China.