Because the politics in Asia ranged from democratic to authoritarian, it would be difficult to find a base for multilateral relations stemming from shared values.

Furthermore, Asian countries were not perceived to face a single threat, unlike Western Europe from the Soviet Union.

During the Cold War, the treaty also helped US policymakers to shape the policy of containment in East Asia together with South Korea and Japan against the potential spread of communism.

The Republic of China Armed Forces continued to counterattack on a small scale, with more defeats and fewer victories.

As a result, the national army missed three major opportunities (the Great Leap Forward in 1958, the Sino-Indian border conflict in 1962, and the Cultural Revolution in 1966), which completely stifled the hope of the Republic of China's government to counterattack the mainland.

The authority for President Jimmy Carter to unilaterally annul a treaty, in this case, America's treaty with the Republic of China, was the topic of the Supreme Court case Goldwater v. Carter in which the court declined to rule on the legality of this action on jurisdictional grounds, thereby allowing it to proceed.

Shortly after the United States recognized the People's Republic of China, the U.S. Congress passed the Taiwan Relations Act.