Word: kai-shek
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...Nixon stressed, too early to talk seriously about U.S. recognition of Peking or to look for immediate solutions to the many problems that have convulsed U.S.-Chinese relations since the Communist forces of Mao Tse-tung drove Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
Richard Nixon's arrival in the White House was welcomed with particular warmth in Taipei. After all, the former Vice President was well known as a vigorous antiCommunist, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek naturally expected him to continue Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Red government on China's mainland. Of late, however, the warmth has turned to deep dismay over the Nixon Administration's increasingly friendly gestures toward the mainland government...
...were enough to exhaust any Westerner's patience. The Nationalist Chinese victory of 1928 over the provincial warlords was never total. Its reformist possibilities were gradually destroyed by corruption and ineptitude and by the bitter power struggle with the emerging Communist Party, which challenged the existence of Chiang Kai-shek's regime. Many in Chiang's Kuomintang Party were attempting to push China toward modernization and industrialization, the path taken by Japan the century before. Many others seemed content to take what they could from a peasantry long accustomed to abuse. Chiang's tragedy, according...
...spent the first half-hour seated at a corner table and surrounded by six editors of the Wellesley News. It looked as if the entire staff had shown up to interview her, and one of the girls told me, "She's our most famous alumna since Madame Chiang Kai-shek." Prettier, too, I thought, but the editor sniffed, "Oh, I don't know, she looks thirty...
...officially maintains that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists remain the rightful rulers of mainland China, and for 21 years has refused to recognize Mao's regime. Aside from formally acknowledging reality, a change in U.S. policy would have a number of other advantages, as well as some disadvantages...