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...vote will probably go against Peking for some time. Even if it turns favorable, there are no indications that Peking will accept a seat until its terms for entering the U.N. are met; Peking insists that it be absolved of the Korean War aggressor label and that Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists be expelled. Neither is likely to happen soon...
Beyond such steps, of course, remains the most troublesome issue: Taiwan. Washington steadfastly maintains that it is committed to Chiang Kai-shek's government, and by implication to his claim that he still heads the Republic of China. The U.S. is indeed committed to Chiang's regime by ties of history and honor. But it need not and cannot much longer sustain the fiction that Taiwan is China...
Through all the postwar upheavals and changes in Asia, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has endured. Now 81 years old, and an exile for the past 20 years on the island of Taiwan, he is a living anachronism. Chiang is still widely recognized-at least in formal diplomatic terms- as the representative of all China. Yet even that is beginning to change, as some Western nations stir toward explicit acknowledgment of Mao Tse-tung's rule of the mainland. Italy put out feelers toward possible Peking diplomatic ties earlier this year. Canada announced last week that it planned to hold...
...face of these new challenges, Chiang Kai-shek needs a thriving, successful Taiwan. The Nationalists have achieved at least part of that by using thorough land reform and well-paced industrialization to shape some impressive social and economic growth. But the island's internal political evolution has not kept pace, and frequent promises of domestic reform have somehow never materialized. Last week the Kuomintang, Chiang's crusty 50-year-old ruling party, was talking self-improvement once more...
Died. Dr. Carsun Chang, 82, longtime leader of China's "third force" movement, an amorphous coalition of intellectuals that for 20 years vainly sought to establish a democratic alternative to either Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomingtang or the Communists; in Berkeley, Calif...