Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the summer, with Richard Nixon's initiative toward China and his startling economic campaigns, foreign and domestic, an unfamiliar sense of drama has overtaken the Administration. Last week, as the President headed for his Alaskan meeting with Japan's Emperor Hirohito, and mainland China seemed astir with mysterious movement (see THE WORLD), there was anticipation of further surprises...
...amount of activity around the Communist Party headquarters in Peking, where lights were burning late into the night and many black sedans were parked outside. At the same time, the top military leaders dropped out of sight; as of last week, only one had reappeared. Air traffic over the mainland came to a near halt, and Communist Chinese air force interceptors did not even rise, as usual, to shadow Nationalist fighter patrols over the Taiwan Strait. Military units were put on some sort of alert, and there were reports of furloughs being canceled, although soldiers on leave appeared as usual...
...possible to recognize the existence of two regimes under the principle of one China." At present, Japan's trade with the two is almost in balance: $822 million with Peking last year, $950 million with Taipei (whose population is only 14 million, or one-fiftieth that of the mainland...
...sort of house organ for world leaders. In the first issue-which Lenin read carefully-former U.S. Secretary of State Elihu Root proclaimed America's global destiny. Other contributors have included Leon Trotsky, Nikita Khrushchev and, in 1967, Richard Nixon, who explained the necessity for stabilized relations with mainland China...
...regarded as certain that the Peking government will be admitted this fall, 22 years after the Communist takeover on the mainland. Nor is there any doubt that the Communist government will immediately be granted China's permanent seat on the 15-seat Security Council; that, too, became a virtual certainty when the U.S. went on record last week as supporting such a move. The remaining question is whether, in the weeks to come, the U.S. will be able to prevent the U.N. from altogether expelling Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Chinese regime...