Word: kai-shek
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Only 2½ years ago, the future of Taiwan, last bastion of Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China, seemed gloomy indeed. Within a few months of the mainland's opening outward with Ping Pong diplomacy, tiny Taiwan found itself practically isolated. It was expelled from the U.N. and lost the recognition of 33 of 68 countries, including such important allies as Japan and Australia. But since those dark days, the island of 16 million has not only survived, it has prospered...
...papers were released this week from Kennedy's presidential office files which are temporarily stored in Waltham. They include a September 1963 memorandum to Kennedy from Chiang Kai-shek which details the Nationalist Chinese intention to invade the mainland and launch a counter-revolution...
...death blow for Imperial China and its Confucian tradition. A powerful new faction emerged, led by Sun Yat-sen, and in October 1911, it brought revolution to the Chinese. The overthrow of the imperial power came with surprisingly little bloodshed--the enemies were still from without. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung, two aids of Sun, worked with their leader for unity in the Middle Kingdom. The process was completed by Mao in 1949 with the October 1 founding of The People's Republic...
...resumption of full diplomatic relations. Chou, however, reminded reporters that Peking is opposed to any such move while Taiwan still has an embassy in Washington. Asked if he might make a visit to the U.S., the Premier replied, "As long as there is a representative of the Chiang Kai-shek clique there...
...countries that have reached socialism, I have asked them the following question in a loud voice, 'Why, for instance, has a country like the People's Republic of China, a powerful country, an extraordinarily powerful country, had to tolerate the reality that Taiwan is in the hands of Chaing Kai-shek? Is it because the People's Republic of China does not have weapons sufficiently powerful in order to have, in two minutes, recovered Taiwan? Why hasn't China done this? Because, undoubtedly, there are more important problems of political responsibility; because acting so, the People's Republic of China...