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Desultory Demonstrations. Though the new U.S. policy put Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime at a decided disadvantage. Taipei was outwardly calm. The regime issued a terse statement that merely promised a fight for Taipei's "lawful rights and position" in the U.N., and warned that the organization could "drift into impotence and total failure" if Peking is admitted...
...York to occupy a seat. What if Taipei were voted out of its seat on the Security Council, as is almost certain, and could hope for no more than a seat in the Assembly? Despite U.S. prodding, Taipei has yet to provide a clear answer. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek must make the final decision, but he seems in no hurry...
Gratitude. Until now, Japan has maintained a two-China policy, resolutely refusing to grant diplomatic recognition to the Communist regime. In part this stems from U.S. pressure, but it also reflects a feeling of gratitude toward the Chiang Kai-shek regime, whose magnanimous treatment of the defeated Japanese after World War II was in marked contrast to that meted out by the Soviets and Mao's guerrillas...
...says Tokyo University Professor Shinkichi Eto, "is not to do anything that irritates Peking." To that end, Japan Air Lines and the Nippon Steel Corp., the country's largest steel producer, last week boycotted economic conferences with Taiwan, and five Japanese shipping lines decided to stop serving Chiang Kai-shek's island. Although two-way trade with Peking was less last year than with Taiwan ($825 million v. $955 million), it is a rare Japanese businessman who does not relish the prospect of 800 million potential consumers...
Both men were born in China to U.S. missionaries shortly before the 1911 revolution toppled the Manchu dynasty. Both were educated partly in China and spoke the language fluently. By 1944 they were young old China hands stationed in Chiang Kai-shek's wartime refugee capital, Chungking, as political officers on the staff of Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, who was commander of U.S. forces in the China-Burma-India theater during World War II. The pair chafed at the frustrating restraints imposed on "Vinegar Joe" by the generalissimo and his Nationalist regime, which they believed was fatally weak...