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...success fanned Luce's idealistic passions. His journalistic judgment could be clouded at times by his own commitments. On the issues and people he cared most about--China, American foreign policy, the Republican Party, Chiang Kai-shek, Winston Churchill, Wendell Willkie--he personally directed coverage at critical times with a feverish and occasionally suffocating intensity. And on those subjects his magazines could be startlingly biased, even polemical. On most issues, however, Luce was relatively open-minded, deferential to his editors, receptive to many conflicting views, eager to attract the talents of gifted writers whatever their ideologies. His own politics were...
...Kill them all, keep it secret." --Chiang Kai-shek, in response to Taiwanese protesters...
Despite this historic isolation from China, when Chiang Kai-shek first sent troops to Taiwan after World War II, the Taiwanese initially welcomed them, thinking that the Chinese would rule more fairly than the Japanese. 2-28 shattered these hopes. Soon after the massacre, martial law and an extensive secret police were instated for the next 40 years. Ironically, 2-28 had the important effect of cementing the Taiwanese identity--the people of Taiwan wanted little to do with their Chinese oppressors, and, for the first time, the Taiwanese strongly felt that they were indeed a distinct society and culture...
...CHIANG KAI-SHEK 1937 Reigning in a China beset by Japan and civil strife...
...status of Taiwan, an island province which became the Republic of China after Communist victories drove Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government there in 1949, was one of the over riding issues surrounding Jiang's speech...