Article IX
This Treaty shall be ratified by the United States of America and the Republic of China in accordance with their respective constitutional processes and will come into force when instruments of ratification thereof have been exchanged by them at Taipei.
Article X
This Treaty shall remain in force indefinitely. Either Party may terminate it one year after notice has been given to the other Party.
In witness whereof the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty.
Done in duplicate, in the English and Chinese languages, at Washington on this second day of December of the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-four, corresponding to the second day of the twelfth month of the Forty-third year of the Republic of China.
For the United States of America:
- John Foster Dulles
For the Republic of China:
- George K. C. Yeh
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