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  "id": "RS20187",
  "type": "CRS Report",
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      "id": 102515,
      "date": "1999-04-30",
      "retrieved": "2016-05-24T20:45:35.761941",
      "title": "Taiwan's Defense: Assessing The U.S. Department of Defense Report, \"The Security Situation in the Taiwan Strait\"",
      "summary": "The 106th Congress is being called on to consider legislation on U.S. support for Taiwan's\nmilitary\ndefense needs, based in part on a congressionally-mandated U.S. Defense Department (DoD) report\nreleased in February 1999 on \"The Security Situation in the Taiwan Strait.\" To respond to a number\nof inquiries, CRS has prepared this brief analysis of the 28-page DoD report. The DoD report\nprovides an authoritative and straight-forward review of the status and short term outlook of military\nforces on the People's Republic of China (PRC) and Taiwan sides of the Taiwan Strait. It concludes\nthat the \"dynamic equilibrium\" has not changed in the last 20 years. On the other hand, although the\nDoD report has language that can be interpreted to support no change in U.S. military support for\nTaiwan, much of the report's discussion suggests that Taiwan's defensive edge may be eroding as\nit faces increased PRC ballistic and cruise missile and air defense capabilities and an increased ability\nto carry out a naval blockade against Taiwan. This CRS report will not be updated. For coverage\nof Taiwan issues, see the discussion and selected readings in  Taiwan,  CRS Issue Brief IB98034. For\na photocopy of the DoD report, please call the Inquiry Section at 7-7500 and ask for LRS99-1975.",
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  "topics": [
    "Foreign Affairs",
    "National Defense"
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