Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Japan, he said, considered its 1952 peace treaty with Chiang's government as having "ceased to be valid," and would sever relations forthwith. Angrily condemning Japan's "perfidious actions," the Nationalist government severed relations with Tokyo and threw a cordon of troops around the Japanese embassy in Taipei in order to protect it from possible mob violence...
...visit will end on the eve of Oct. 1, making the summit a kind of obeisance to Mao Tse-tung's Communists, who use that date as the anniversary of the triumphant establishment of their regime in Peking in 1949. When a ranking Japanese emissary arrived in Taipei early last week to plead for "understanding" of the summit, Nationalist student demonstrators greeted him with angry placards crying TANAKA GO TO HELL...
...Japanese government has never before admitted the obvious: that the establishment of diplomatic relations with Peking-which it now favors -would lead inevitably to a break in its friendly ties with the Chinese Nationalist regime in Taipei. But last week, inscrutably enough, the government of Premier Kakuei Tanaka casually released a document saying just that...
...Secretary Susumu Nikaido lamely explained that the document, labeled the government's "basic views" on establishing normal relations with China, was a confidential policy and should not have been released. Then he disclosed that the Japanese have actually been working on a gentlemen's agreement with the Taipei regime that would allow the Nationalists to save face if a Tokyo-Peking agreement appeared imminent. Taipei would simply take the initiative in breaking off its relations with Japan "for negotiating with Peking...
...Senkakus themselves, which are tiny, rocky and uninhabited, would seem to be an odd subject for such a dispute. But according to a recently published U.N. survey, they may well be surrounded by a vast offshore oilfield in which Tokyo, Peking and Taipei are all exceedingly interested...