Word: taipei
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Important Question. Washington's current policy, as outlined last month by Secretary of State William Rogers, is a one-China, one-Taiwan approach. The U.S. will support the admission of Peking without the expulsion of Taipei from the General Assembly. That stand involves harrowing legal problems. According to the U.N. Charter, the admission and expulsion of members must be recommended to the General Assembly by the Security Council. If Peking is allowed to take over China's Security Council seat, it is certain to oppose any plan to retain Taipei's U.N. membership, since it argues...
Countering China. Oddly enough, China's Chou, in his interview with New York Timesman James Reston, expressed a parallel concern (see THE PRESS). His government, he indicated, was worried about what they feel are Japanese aggressive designs for a Tokyo-Taipei-Seoul linkup. At one point during the interview, in fact, Reston told the Premier: "Nothing has surprised me quite as much since coming here as the vehemence of your feeling about Japan." Obviously, however, Peking's principal preoccupation is with its conflict with the Soviet Union...
...TAIPEI MIGHT HANG ON. To prevent Taipei's expulsion, the U.S. could resort to another parliamentary maneuver; it could make a procedural move calling for separate treatment of the Albanian resolution's two parts, splitting the section that requires the seating of Peking from the section that requires the expulsion of Taipei. The logic behind such a move is simple: a majority of the General Assembly wants to seat Peking, but does not necessarily want to see Taipei thrown...
...this stratagem, admission of Peking would presumably be carried by a simple majority. Then, if the U.S. had its way, expulsion of Taipei would be defined as an important matter requiring a two-thirds vote, which the advocates of Taipei's ouster might fail to muster...
Taking another tack, the U.S. could introduce a separate procedural resolution declaring that Taipei is a U.N. member in good standing-despite uncertainties about what it represents-and thus could not, under the U.N. charter, be ousted without a two-thirds vote. If either version were successful, Taipei would stay in the U.N.-and Peking probably would, as it has promised, refuse to take its newly won seat...