Editing Six Assurances (section)

{{Short description|Six key foreign policy principles of the United States regarding United States–Taiwan relations}}
The '''Six Assurances''' are six key foreign policy principles of the United States regarding [[United States–Taiwan relations]]. They were passed as unilateral U.S. clarifications to the [[Three Communiqués#Third|Third Communiqué]] between [[The United States of America|the United States]] and [[the People's Republic of China]] in 1982. They were intended to reassure both [[Taiwan]] and the [[United States Congress]] that the US would continue to support Taiwan even if it had earlier cut formal diplomatic relations.

The assurances were originally proposed by the then [[Kuomintang]] (Chinese Nationalist Party) government of the [[Republic of China]] on Taiwan during negotiations between the U.S. and the People's Republic of China.{{cn|date=June 2022}} The U.S. [[Presidency of Ronald Reagan|Reagan administration]] agreed to the assurances and informed the United States Congress of them in July 1982.

Today, the Six Assurances are part of semiformal guidelines used in conducting [[Foreign relations of Taiwan#United States|relations]] between the US and Taiwan. The assurances have been generally reaffirmed by successive U.S. administrations. Prior to 2016, they were purely informal, but in 2016, their formal content was adopted by the [[US House of Representatives]] and the [[United States Senate|Senate]] in non-binding resolutions, upgrading their status to formal but not directly enforceable.