Word: formosae
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This time the no came in 70 hours. "The United States aggression against China's territory of Taiwan [Formosa] has all along been the source of tension in the Far East ..." said the cabled reply from Chou Enlai. "Taiwan, the Penghu Islands [Pescadores], and other coastal islands are all inalienable parts of China's territory. But the representative of New Zealand proposed that the U.N. consider the hostilities off the coast of the mainland of China between the People's Republic of China and the traitorous Chiang Kai-shek clique. This is obviously to intervene in China...
Concluded Chou: Peking would not come to the U.N. unless discussion was confined solely to Russia's proposal to turn Formosa over to the Reds, and only if Nationalist China was first booted out of the Security Council. Otherwise, "all decisions taken in the Security Council on questions concerning China would be illegal and null and void...
...behavior, however, was crocodile horror. Several U.S. policymakers, for example, had deliberately gambled that Peking would have to reject a U.N. cease-fire proposal. The Chinese Nationalists unabashedly breathed sighs of relief that Chou had saved them from what they feared would prove a U.N.-supervised process of handing Formosa to the Reds...
...second look, the surprise of European and Asian diplomats over Chou's rejection was unjustified. Though the U.N. invitation gave the Communists a propaganda opportunity-and a long-range chance to neutralize Formosa-the rigid logic of Peking's position forbade them to take it. The U.S. State Department had correctly guessed Red China's response...
...five years Peking has been staking its prestige on its solemn vow to "liberate Formosa." It is Peking's declared No. 1 foreign-policy objective. It serves the additional purposes of justifying its large armies, of keeping tensions stirred up, of taking its people's minds off crop failures and floods. Chiang Kai-shek serves the historical function of being tyranny's external enemy, who can be blamed for exertions demanded and identified as the sponsor of anyone who dares challenge the regime. To renounce all this, to concede the U.N.'s right to talk...