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...some places, to be sure, Nixon's exit was received with regret and even foreboding. Chiang Kai-shek's regime on Taiwan was upset over the demise of the man who had been one of its strongest political allies in the U.S. since the 1950s, even if he did initiate Washington's rapprochement with Peking. The Thieu regime in Saigon was privately fretful. Drawing a lugubrious analogy, one former South Vietnamese Cabinet officer noted that "even after Nixon married off Viet Nam, his daughter, in the Paris agreement, he still very carefully looked after her interests...
...apparently been a resurgence of anti-imperialism in the provinces. In Szechwan, for example, the provincial radio reported a rally condemning the World War II Chinese American Cooperation Center (which was actually a technical-assistance facility for the Chinese secret police) where, it was said, "U.S.Chiang Kai-shek reactionaries had slaughtered the Chinese people...
Only 2½ years ago, the future of Taiwan, last bastion of Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China, seemed gloomy indeed. Within a few months of the mainland's opening outward with Ping Pong diplomacy, tiny Taiwan found itself practically isolated. It was expelled from the U.N. and lost the recognition of 33 of 68 countries, including such important allies as Japan and Australia. But since those dark days, the island of 16 million has not only survived, it has prospered...
...papers were released this week from Kennedy's presidential office files which are temporarily stored in Waltham. They include a September 1963 memorandum to Kennedy from Chiang Kai-shek which details the Nationalist Chinese intention to invade the mainland and launch a counter-revolution...
...death blow for Imperial China and its Confucian tradition. A powerful new faction emerged, led by Sun Yat-sen, and in October 1911, it brought revolution to the Chinese. The overthrow of the imperial power came with surprisingly little bloodshed--the enemies were still from without. Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung, two aids of Sun, worked with their leader for unity in the Middle Kingdom. The process was completed by Mao in 1949 with the October 1 founding of The People's Republic...