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...question arose from a new military estimate of the situation in the Far East. U.S. leaders are convinced that the Chinese Communists are about to attack the offshore islands now held by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces. The Reds are expected to hit the Matsu group between April 15 and April 30, the Quemoys a month or so later. To inform and prepare the Congress and the people, the White House this week scheduled a series of bipartisan conferences on the danger and the problems the new estimate presents...
...possibility of establishing a "two China Policy" by recognizing Mao Tse-tung as the legitimate ruler of the Chinese mainland." Actually, the United States is already supporting a two China policy, implicitly if not explicitly. By refusing to countenance any attempt on the part of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to regain the mainland, President Eisenhower and the State Department have recognized that, in the military sphere, the Communist government is in effective control of the territory...
...diplomatic, sphere, however, the U.S. still maintains that Chiang Kai-shek is the legitimate ruler. To the Communists it appears, incorrect though this impression may be, that the U.S. is interfering in a Chinese civil war, by supporting and encouraging a hostile pretender one hundred miles of the Chinese coast. The leaders of Asian neutral opinion--Mr. Nehru of India, Prime Minister U Nu of Burma, and Sir John Kotelawala of Ceylon--feel the same way, regarding the present U.S. policy as inconsistent and dangerous...
...tung the United States would, in effect, reverse its two China policy in favor of a policy of one China, military and diplomatically consistent, and of a separate and independent Formosa. Yet mere recognition would provide no solution to the essential problem of American relations with Chiang Kai-shek. If the U.S. continues to recognize Chiang as the Nationalist ruler of China, she should not expect reciprocity from the Communists; for it is written into the Chinese Constitution that "the People's Republic will not recognize any nation which has diplomatic relations with the reactionary Kuomintang clique." It is clear...
...Chiang Kai-shek should win such a plebiscite--and there is evidence that he has achieved a high degree of popularity among the firmly anti-Communist Formosans the U.S. could continue to support his government. But this would be no longer the "reactionary warlord" whom the Asians now see in control of the island, but rather a legitimized, popularly elected leader of nine million free Asians. Such a victory would greatly enhance the prestige of both Chiang and of the United States...