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...against North Viet Nam, which he calls "an insurmountable obstacle to discussions," would have to be suspended as a precondition to the truce. For another, they noted that any such truce could become a trap. They recalled in particular how the Chinese Communists, routed in the battle of Szepingkai in 1946 and on the brink of losing all of Manchuria to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists, pressured U.S. mediators into calling for a standstill, then used the precious time to regroup. The Chinese later exploited the Korean peace talks at Panmunjom, which dragged on for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Help from the Hyperhawks | 4/7/1967 | See Source »

...news from Manchuria was almost as bad as the Shensi catastrophe. Kirin, a fat prize with its huge Hsiaofengmen hydroelectric plant (power source for Changchun and Mukden industries), fell to the Reds. Then, after an eleven-day onslaught, the Reds took Szepingkai. Only Mukden and Changchun held out. When they fell, 300,000 more Red soldiers could plunge south into the heart of China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Tears for the Valiant | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...meant that there was no longer a land corridor into Manchuria for the Nationalists. Ninety-nine percent of the land area of Manchuria was in the hands of the Reds; 1% was in General Wei's. That 1% consisted principally of the cities of Mukden, Changchun, Kirin and Szepingkai-dwindling islands of resistance. What remained for the Communist armies under General Lin Piao was simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Next: the Mop-Up | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Government strategy seemed to be to let the Communist blows at the communications lines spend themselves, defend the main cities: Changchun, Szepingkai, Mukden-then sally out to restore the lines once more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Autumn Offensive | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

...South Manchuria, except Dairen and Port Arthur which are occupied by the troops of the Soviet Union. But Communist troops hold all the rest of Manchuria, except a long finger-shaped salient from Mukden to Kirin. This salient follows what was once the major railroad of Manchuria, passing through Szepingkai and Changchun. It is a railroad no longer. Communists have destroyed every bridge north of a point 30 miles to the south of Szepingkai. Most of the ties have been burned, and many of the rails twisted by placing them across the blazing ties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: REPORT ON CHINA | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

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