Word: kaishek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moment, they are watching and waiting-and stressing politics rather than military force as the most effective current weapon against Red China. "Our present task," says Chiang Kaishek, "is to adapt ourselves to the changes in the world situation and create new opportunities for ourselves. Though we are convinced that our military counteroffensive will be the decisive force to roll back the tides of treachery and suffering, we must bear in mind that as far as the present situation is concerned, politics must not only precede military action but politics must be considered as surpassing military action in importance...
...province would have expected him to become a guerrilla leader 19 years after he was born in Twisting Dragon Hill, the son of a felt-factory owner. In Manchu China, boys would be soldiers: off to Canton's Whampoa Military Academy went Lin, where he studied under Chiang Kaishek, in the company of such revolutionary notables as Chou...
...clearly possesses the revolutionary purity and zeal that Mao values so highly. The son of a small factory owner in central China, the new No. 2 man attended Canton's famed Whampoa Military Academy, whose director was Chiang Kaishek. Young Lin, however, was apparently more influenced by one of his tutors, Chou Enlai. A colonel at 22 in the Kuomintang army, Lin defected to the Communists and later commanded the famed First Red Army group on the Long March to the shelter of Mao's redoubt in the remote caves of Yenan...
...REGIME. Seventeen years after its victory over Chiang Kaishek, the Communist regime is solidly entrenched on the mainland. The chance of an internal revolution that would overthrow the Chinese Communists, says Professor Robert Scalapino of the University of California, "seems remote, barring global war or some other major and unforeseeable crisis." Other China experts agree. The Communists have unified the provinces, centralized all authority and imposed a totalitarian administration that has steadily tightened its grip on all phases of government and life. Chairman Mao Tse-tung's chilling philosophy is that "all political power grows out of the barrel...
...March, any doubts that Chiang would succeed his father as Nationalist China's chief vanished. Another enigmatic element in Chiang's career is the twelve years he spent in the Soviet Union (1925-37). Accounts of his last ten years there, when Stalin was feuding with Chiang Kaishek, are vague and controversial...