Moving toward a “QuasiMilitary Alliance”: The Deepening and Upgrading of USTaiwan Security Cooperation (1995～2008) (Xin Qiang) Since the third Taiwan Strait crisis of 1995~1996, the United States initiated and put into practice a series of policies and measures which deepened USTaiwan mutual security relations. These policies and measures include the assistance of Taiwans military forces to set up and improve the integrated “joint automatic command system of the three services of armed forces,” the promotion of cooperation between the United States and Taiwan over high military technology, the promotion of collection, conformity and sharing of intelligence information between the two armed forces, and the participation in and guidance of Taiwans military exercises. With the constant upgrading of USTaiwan military “software” cooperation and the deepening of the degree of “institutionalization,” USTaiwan security relations are moving toward the dangerous direction of a “quasimilitary alliance.”