Word: communistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During World War II, Teng helped set up a highly effective guerrilla force against the Japanese in North China. After Japan's surrender, the group continued its operations against Chiang's Nationalist armies. When the Communists took power in 1949, Teng served as the party boss of South China and the mayor of Chungking. Called to Peking in 1952, he held a variety of major posts, some of them simultaneously: Finance Minister, Secretary of the Central Committee, Vice Chairman of National Defense, Secretary-General of the Communist Party. In 1956 he was appointed to the Politburo's seven-man standing...
...felt that Liu and his pragmatic allies, of whom Teng was foremost, had created highly bureaucratic "independent kingdoms" based on a system that was unresponsive to the needs of the party and the people. In 1965 Liu was denounced as a "renegade, scab and traitor," expelled from the Communist Party "forever" and sent to prison, where he reportedly died in 1973. (There are rumors in Peking that his reputation may be cleared posthumously...
...question for Chiang Ching-kuo and his fellow veterans of China's Nationalist Party. More than half a century has passed since Chiang Kai-shek made the fateful decision to engage in bloody civil war with China's Communists. For nearly 22 years that bitter struggle raged back and forth across China. Many Americans perceived Chiang Kai-shek as an architect of potential stability in Asia. The disillusionment was thus especially bitter on both sides of the Pacific when Communist forces crushed Chiang's demoralized armies in 1949 and Mao proclaimed the People's Republic...
Taiwan's present dilemma really began in 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek and his central government in exile moved to Taipei. After Peking entered the Korean War in 1950, President Truman helped secure the island from Communist conquest by interposing the U.S. Seventh Fleet between Taiwan and the mainland-an act incidentally that also prevented the Nationalists from trying to reconquer China. American support, both military and economic, eventually encouraged the Kuomintang to enact many of the reforms it had failed to carry out while in power on the mainland. Today, Taiwan is one of the best...
...raged the debate in the U.S. last week over Jimmy Carter's decision to break diplomatic relations with the Nationalist Chinese government in Taipei, cancel Washington's defense treaty with Taiwan and open full diplomatic relations with the Communist Chinese government in Peking...