Word: kaishek
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...Peking delegates fairly gloated. Glaring over the speakers' rostrum at Bush, Iraqi Ambassador Talib El-Shi-bib mockingly suggested that if the U.S. still wanted to save a seat for Chiang Kaishek, "it is very welcome to take him and put him in place of the American delegation." With that, Nationalist Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai stood up, walked to the rostrum and announced that he would "not take part in any further proceedings." Amid sympathetic applause, he then led his five-member delegation out of the hall. It was the most dignified gesture in a tableau that a British...
...White House. Once Richard Nixon had announced his plans to travel to the Forbidden City, it was almost inconceivable that the U.S.'s allies would queer their own chances for a rapprochement with Peking by rallying round an outdated U.S. commitment to Mao's old foe, Chiang Kaishek. Then there was Kissinger's presence in Peking as the great debate proceeded. As France's Ambassador Jacques Kosciousko-Morizet put it at the U.N. last week: "In order to make the dual representation scheme a success, it would have been better to avoid a dual diplomacy...
...Peking's entry for more than two decades, was now conceding the Communists' claim to a seat, but was also engaged in an epic struggle to save a place in the General Assembly for the embattled, Taiwan-based Nationalist regime of Mao's old enemy, Chiang Kaishek. But with the special antimagic that the U.N. seems to possess in abundance, the buildup to the climax dissolved into hours of stiff speechifying, interspersed with moments of bizarre and totally unrelated melodrama...
...UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, long noted for its scholarly spokesmen for Chiang Kaishek, still has faculty members known for skepticism about how well U.S. accommodations with the mainland may work out. Historian George Taylor, for example, feels that Nixon's decision to visit China in person has compromised the U.S. bargaining position: "It would be quite sufficient to send the Secretary of State." In recent years Historian Vincent Shih, a China emigré, has been leading a massive research project on the 19th century Taiping Rebellion, a 20-year peasant uprising against domestic corruption that the Communists often cite...
China scholarship is nothing if not passionate. One feud at Yale in the early 1960s involved husband-wife Historians Arthur and Mary Wright and Political Scientist David Rowe. The Yale Daily News had a field day describing the "Rowe-Wright row." Rowe, a staunch defender of Chiang Kaishek, attacked the Wrights, who backed a more pragmatic policy toward Peking, for being too far left...