Dual Recognition

Dual Recognition

Summary of Dual Recognition

The recognition of two rival governments within a country by a third power. This condition normally occurs when one government is recognized as the de jure government, and a competing regime is recognized as the de facto government of at least a portion of the country. For example, during the years 1949-79, the United States recognized the Nationalist regime in Taiwan as the lawful government of mainland China but reluctantly accepted the fact that the Communist regime in Peking was the actual governmental authority for the mainland.

(Main Author: William J. Miller)


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