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President Nixon claims to support the seating of the People's Republic, but he also wants the representatives of Chiang Kai-shek's regime to retain a seat. This so-called "dual representation" scheme is nothing more than the dead-beat 'Two China Policy." America asserts that the People's Republic and Chiang each legitimately represents different segments of the Chinese people, and, as such, both deserve representation in the U.N. This is what Secretary of State Rogers claimed in his October 4 U.N. speech as "the reality of the current situation...
...Nixon to create popular concern for the 14 million Taiwanese after America has held back the representation of 700 million people for over twenty years can only be viewed as the most cynical manipulation of public sympathies. Chiang Kai-shek is nothing but a dictator defeated in a civil was whose existing regime has been propped up by massive American military and economic aid. America's presence on Chinese soil and interference in the internal disputes of the Chinese are illegal acts of aggression as defined by international law. They are also an affront to the peaceful intentions and humanity...
...first News Tour, to Western Europe and Russia, resulted in a long and memorable interview with Nikita Khrushchev. On three subsequent tours to Asia and Eastern Europe, participants met Marshal Tito, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, Indonesian President Suharto, Pakistan's then-President Ayub Khan, Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu...
...Truman made his now famous promise not to "pursue a course which will lead to involvement in the civil conflict in China." Yet when the Korean war broke out, Truman ordered the Seventh Fleet into the Taiwan Straits and established the pattern of massive American military aid to Chiang Kai-shek's regime...
...China problem is a particularly delicate one for the Japanese. Though they recognize Chiang Kai-shek's government as the legitimate China, the Japanese trade with both Taipei and Peking. Premier Sato explains: "During this transitional period, it is possible to recognize the existence of two regimes under the principle of one China." At present, Japan's trade with the two is almost in balance: $822 million with Peking last year, $950 million with Taipei (whose population is only 14 million, or one-fiftieth that of the mainland...