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When the United Airlines jet landed at Washington Airport last week, General Chiang Ching-kuo walked unnoticed past the waiting reception committee of U.S. officials and Chinese diplomats. It was not until moments later that they spotted him, a chunky man in a nondescript business suit, patiently examining the modernistic interior of the Dulles Terminal Building...
...committee's mistake, and the general's demeanor, were both significant. Though the eldest son of Chiang Kaishek, Nationalist China's venerable president, Chiang Ching-kuo, 53, is the mystery man of Formosa who avoids the limelight. Partly, the mystery has professional reasons: as chief of Formosa's secret police and head of the guerrilla activities directed against Red China, he naturally seeks the shadows...
Kennedy and top U.S. officials were seeing face to face the man who may well succeed his father as President of Nationalist China. On Formosa, Ching-kuo is known as "Little Chiang," and his only major rival for the top job is Vice President Chen Cheng, who suffers from a liver ailment and has been in semiretirement since June. Born in Chekiang province to the Gimo's first wife, a peasant girl who was later killed in a Japanese bombing raid, Ching-kuo was 16 when the Gimo sent him to Moscow in 1925 "to learn more about revolutionary...
...gimmick to divert attention from Red China's woeful economic failures, he could scarcely have dreamed up a better one. Mao's wife is a slender, handsome woman of about 45 who once acted in Chinese movies under the name Lan Pin, now calls herself Chiang Ching. She married him in 1939 after he divorced No. 3. Liu's wife, Wang Kuang-mei, is also his fourth. The first was killed during China's civil war, the other two were divorced. Some 25 years his junior (Liu is in his early 60s), she is dark. trim...
...historical drama, "Naval Battle of 1894 Sino-Japanese War." Peking Review describes it in one convoluted sentence: "Despite the bravery of its men, the Peiyang Squadron of the Chinese Navy is defeated by the Japanese fleet as a result of the betrayal of the capitulationist clique of the Ching court working in collusion with foreign imperialists...