Word: kai-shek
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...Zedong, the leader of the communist revolution that forced Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist government to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, used to say he could wait 100 years to bring the province back into the fold. Today's men in Beijing are less patient, perhaps sensing that Taiwan is growing stronger and more distant all the time. Last week, in a formal speech at the Great Hall of the People, Premier Li Peng lectured the citizens of the island: No matter how they might choose their President, "they cannot change the fact that Taiwan...
...submerged. Infuriated by Taiwan President Lee Tung-hui's successful odyssey back to his alma mater. Cornell, communist leaders in the PRC conducted two missile tests in the summer and have launched endless verbal attacks in media. In fact, some outside observers believe them to be warning Chiang Kai-shek's heirs not to play with fire, unless they would feel comfortable swimming all the way to the United States for protection...
There seems to exist every reason to foresee a crisis in a tacit, longtime, mutual appeasement. Forty five years ago, because of the military intervention of the United States, Mao Zedong, reluctantly gave up his ruthless ambition of sparing none. Across the strait, Chiang Kai-shek thought the same. After spending some time interpreting Mao's "mercy," Chiang also subdued his obsession of recapturing the mainland, and his dream of visiting his hometown one more time gradually faded away. With the United States in between, relative peace was achieved out of a forced balance of explosive tension...
...mainland communists, Taiwan's simple existence as an offshore rival under the rule of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist heirs is an open rebuke of their legitimacy and a thumb in their eye -- even as they pursue detente with the island's regime and ardently court Taiwan investment and trade. China's leaders are wondering whether Clinton was signaling both a reversal of 23 years of Sino-American rapprochement and a precedent for other countries, including Japan, to follow. A Western diplomat in Beijing remarked, "I think what is of concern to them is less the specific development than...
...months before Pearl Harbor, and Henry R. Luce, the 43-year-old founder and editor of TIME, wanted to pay a visit to his hometown of Tengchow, China. He also wanted to check out personally the country's leader, Chiang Kai-shek, a man he had largely created, at least as far as most Americans were concerned. Traveling with his wife, the formidable Clare Boothe Luce, "Harry," as he was called, decided to bring home a souvenir, a talented bundle of energy named Theodore H. White. They are the Harry & Teddy (Random House; 340 pages; $24) of this smart little...