Word: mao
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officials in London and Washington often speak of the possibility of establishing a "two China Policy" by recognizing Mao Tse-tung as the legitimate ruler of the Chinese mainland." Actually, the United States is already supporting a two China policy, implicitly if not explicitly. By refusing to countenance any attempt on the part of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to regain the mainland, President Eisenhower and the State Department have recognized that, in the military sphere, the Communist government is in effective control of the territory...
...fact that Chiang Kai shek no longer rules over 500,000,000 Chinese. Like the ostrich who tries to wish away unpleasant facts by burying his head in the sand, the U.S. stubbornly continues to recognize the Nationalists as the government of China. Unfortunately the revolution is over, and Mao Tse-Tung has implanted in China a ruthless but stable regime. Almost every Asian expert--from professors to State Department advisers to private observers--agrees that the Red Chinese government is going to be around for a long time to come...
...Since Mao's government is so firmly imbedded in China, diplomatic recognition of its existence is the only logical polity. Historically--with the exception of Wilson's "watchful waiting" policy in Mexico--recognition has not implied approval of a government, but cognizance of a fact. The U.S. hardly approves of the governments of the Soviet Union, Argentina, or Spain, but it recognizes them nonetheless...
...provide a lever for negotiations. The British mistakenly extended recognition immediately, without seeking anything in return. Times have changed since China's rebuff to Britain; an offer of U.S recognition today would probably meet with Pciping's acceptance, especially since recognition would bring U.N. admission one step closer to Mao's government...
...preparing to lead his Nationalist army north to Peking, Chiang threw out the Communists who had edged themselves into powerful positions in the Kuomintang-including the head of the Nationalist propaganda department, one Mao Tse-tung. In 1927 he turned irrevocably and ruthlessly on the Communists, both in the army and in the Red industrial stronghold of Shanghai. Says Author Hahn: "On [this] 'white massacre' that began April 12 Communists are eloquent. Chiang did not wait to be betrayed; he committed the unforgivable sin; he outguessed Stalin and struck first...