Except for a period of about 20 years (from 1972 when Nixon visited Beijing and Sino-US relations improved, until 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed and there was a subtle change in Sino-US relations) during which time the US clearly constrained Taiwan in order to curry favor with the PRC, there has basically been no major change in this triangular relationship.
這樣的三角關係，除了中間（自一九七二年尼克森訪問北京，「中」美關係改善，一直到一九九一年蘇俄解體，「中」美關係出現微妙轉變之前）約有二十年時間，由於美國拉攏中共而明顯壓抑台灣之外，基本上沒有很大的變化。