Word: lai
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evacuate, come war or high water, Chiang's Nationalists from the Tachen Islands. The British Commonwealth prime ministers assembled in London could talk of nothing else; Britain's Laborites cried that it surely meant war and demanded that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden beg Premier Chou En-lai for peace. That kind of fear of imminent war in the Formosa Strait (an impression that the Chinese Communists wished to spread) quickly faded with the Moscow announcements, and the evacuation went off without anyone's being hurt...
Predicted Bellicosity. Last fortnight U.S. prestige among free Asian peoples plummeted when President Eisenhower endorsed the idea of U.N. cease-fire talks. If Red China's Chou En-lai had accepted the U.N. invitation under the New Zealand resolution, he would have won wide international backing for a seat in the U.N. and, perhaps, a neutralized Formosa, a sitting duck for Chou to bag when he pleased...
...really hard to see why the brilliant Chou En-lai should thus engage Peking's prestige to the very hilt if the threat to Formosa is a mere vainglorious maneuver, intended to extract some other concession from the West. In fact, if Washington and Taipeh are right about the real Communist intentions, you have to conclude that Chou En-lai is a mere boastful muddler. Such is the conflict of evidence. It is an even bet either way for this year. But a Communist grab for Formosa is a virtual certainty next year or the year after that...
Blunt as Chou was, his renewed vow to "liberate" Formosa omitted one essential: when. The Communists were careful to leave themselves time. Peking is patient, Chou En-lai explained when Burma's Premier U Nu visited Peking last December, and expects to win Formosa not by force of arms but by subversion and defection...
...rushed to confer with the U.S. and New Zealand. As a temporary member of the Security Council, New Zealand was nominated to take the lead. Among them, they agreed that the cease-fire proposal should be limited to the outlying islands; if Chiang Kai-shek and Chou En-lai got to arguing about Formosa, there would be no hope of agreement on anything...