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Initially, the Chinese demanded that Canada acknowledge Peking's claim over Taiwan, which has served as headquarters for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist forces since they fled the mainland in 1949. Finally, the Chinese compromised by allowing Canada to announce that it "takes note" of the claim, without further commenting on it. Even so, it was a moral victory for Peking: France, the last Western nation that recognized China, was not even required to mention Taiwan...
...consult the Western White House after it was over. He told newsmen traveling with him that even though "it might take five years or more." all G.I.s in South Korea would be withdrawn when ROK forces were modernized. TAIWAN: Agnew's visit to 82-year-old Chiang Kai-shek was the closest thing to a courtesy call on his itinerary. The U.S. has only a military advisory mission in Taipei, and Agnew himself summed up Chiang's request for more modern jet planes even before he arrived in Taiwan. "I would guess," he said of Chiang, "he would...
When Chiang Kai-shek's 80-year-old secretary visited the Ivory Coast, President Félix Houphouet-Boigny asked how a man of his age managed to appear to be fit and 50. It was easy, replied the secretary, for one who practiced the ancient Chinese sport of tai chi chuan, or shadowboxing. Houphouet-Boigny, 64, wasted no time in hiring a Taiwanese master named Kwang to teach him the sport's 108 movements. Kwang claims that his charge has not had a sick day since, and he adds, quickly hiding his spectacles, that the President...
...fight against waves of outside agitators sent from, the north by Peking to enforce, national policies. This makes enlightening reading for Americans, who have often misunderstood the on-again, off-again struggle between local and central power in China. American General Joseph Stillwell, for instance, was furious when Chiang Kai-shek ignored his advice to reorganize the Chinese Army in 1942. "With the U. S. on his side and backing him," Stillwell wrote in his diary, "the stupid little ass fails to grasp the big opportunity of his life...
Despite the turmoil, Vogel insists, in 20 years the Communists have welded a tightly disciplined, centralized approach to national problems that guides the thinking of local leaders throughout the country. This great improvement over Chiang Kai-shek's warlord juggling lets the Chinese approach their goals more surefootedly in 1970 than...