Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found your editorial on China sick and disgusting. Let us get straight just what you advocate: that the United States should not only acquiesce in the expulsion of Taiwan from the United Nations, but should abrogate its defense treaty with that nation, making a military takeover by Mainland China inevitable. To back this argument for betrayal you use an obscure bad analogy with Yemen and some facile generalizations from international law. (Regular readers of the Crimson may have found this nice concern for the law somewhat ironic.) I suppose, however, that you are right in saying that there would...
...American defeat (in the U.N. voting) is what we deserve after 20 years of unrealism." John K. Fairbank, Higginson Professor of History, said yesterday. "It is unreal after 20 years to assume that Nationalist China represents the mainland Chinese...
...fact is that if the Taipei regime were expelled, the mainland Communists, with their superb theatrical sense, could conceivably have a man on the floor of the General Assembly the next day to deliver a maiden speech. If Peking is admitted but Taipei is allowed to retain its seat, however, Mao's men will almost certainly stay away...
...State Department. On its New York-to-Moscow run, for example, Pan Am has been losing money since service was initiated in 1968. Some of its prime routes have been invaded by tough competitors. American, Braniff, Continental, Western, Northwest, United and TWA have joined the battle for mainland-to-Hawaii traffic. American and Eastern are competing with Pan Am for the Caribbean, where last year the line had its worst operational loss: $29 million...
...defeated Chiang Kai-shek twenty-two years ago. Americans must abide by this expression of popular will and end its interference in the internal affairs of the Chinese. The two resolutions America plans to submit before the General Assembly will attempt to legitimize the separation of Taiwan from the mainland. They should be defeated. We call for the passage of the Albanian resolution, giving the People's Republic full international recognition as the only representative of the Chinese people...