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Last week the Chinese scored a major success in that strategy. After 20 months of negotiation in Stockholm initiated by Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Peking and Ottawa announced that they would establish diplomatic relations immediately. Trudeau had also agreed to break off relations with Nationalist China, but Taipei beat him to the punch. Just before the new Peking-Ottawa link was announced, Taiwan's Ambassador Hsueh Yu-chi severed his country's diplomatic ties with Canada and took leave of the country in a tearful farewell scene...
Initially, the Chinese demanded that Canada acknowledge Peking's claim over Taiwan, which has served as headquarters for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Nationalist forces since they fled the mainland in 1949. Finally, the Chinese compromised by allowing Canada to announce that it "takes note" of the claim, without further commenting on it. Even so, it was a moral victory for Peking: France, the last Western nation that recognized China, was not even required to mention Taiwan...
...absurdity by pretending that China is actually governed by Taiwan. Ten or 15 years ago, Mao's regime might have agreed to fudge the Taiwan issue in exchange for diplomatic relations with the U.S., but today Peking would very likely insist that Washington break off with the Nationalist government...
Start Walking. Up to now, the "revolutionary" dictatorships of the left have been careful to avoid even the suggestion of kinship with the Communist world. "This is a nationalist, popular and Christian revolution," said Peru's President Juan Velasco Alvarado in a Lima speech marking the second anniversary of the military coup that toppled Belaúnde. "We are trying to find for the problems of Peru solutions derived from Peruvian reality." There is evidence too that the Soviets are being wary about writing mortgages on some of the new political experiments. One story has it that last fall...
...formal election as President. Late last week, in any case, Allende offered a government post to Felipe Herrera, president of the Inter-American Development Bank and a respected hemisphere financial expert. Herrera was said to be ready to accept if he believed that Allende would follow an independent, nationalist line...