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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Pros and Cons of Recognition | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: The Price of Recognition | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

...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 all G.I.s in South Korea would be withdrawn when ROK forces were modernized.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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Palace-to-Palace Salesmanship | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 8, 1970 | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

Three years ago, when West Germany's air force was losing almost two Starfighter jets a month in crashes, Kai-Uwe von Hassel, who was then the Federal Republic's Defense Minister, offered a very personal defense of the ill-fated aircraft. To critics of the U.S.-designed, German-built fighter-bomber. Von Hassel replied that he had such faith in the plane that he had no hesitation about allowing his only son to become a Starfighter pilot. Last week, after a routine 75-minute flight over the North Sea, a Starfighter piloted by Lieut. Joachim von Hassel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Fatal Defense | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

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