Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice between Peking and Taipei would not be an easy one for Japan, and Sato indicated he was not ready to abandon Chiang, especially on Taiwan's membership in the U.N. "How is it possible for us to reject a nation that for long has so faithfully adhered to the United Nations Charter?" Sato asked. "To honor our intentional commitments instead would be the way for us to live up to our reputation as a trustworthy member of the world...
...Hotel on Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan, his favorite summer resort. But both Chiang and his son and heir, Chiang Ching-kuo, 61, who is stubborn and tough like his father, had no illusions about the erosion of the position on which they have built their lives. As Taipei's Ambassador to the U.N. complained candidly: "The U.S. has pulled the rug out from under our feet in the U.N. The damage to us is immeasurable." The proposed Nixon trip, he said, shows that "Communist intransigence pays off" and "hands a prestige victory to the Communists...
...future decision, but obviously the Nationalist regime's claim to be the government of China would no longer be recognized. But while Taiwan has indicated that it would remain in the U.N. if China were admitted to the General Assembly, the nub of the question is whether Taipei will be able to retain its permanent seat on the Security Council. Only the Taiwan government's delay in advising the U.S. precisely what it will do is keeping the U.S. from announcing its own decision on Taiwan's dilemma...
...Jerome Cohen puts it, "every lawyer knows that the name of the game is what label you succeed in imposing on the facts." Obviously, the Communist government in Peking rules China, and nonrecognition of that fact today is a legal shell game. By the same token, the Nationalists in Taipei rule Taiwan. But the question of the island's sovereignty is not so easily settled...
...tung, now 77, and Chiang Kaishek, 83, pass into history, along with their personal hatreds. Only then, in all likelihood, will an accommodation be possible. Harvard Sinologist John Fairbank suggests that the two governments might one day agree simultaneously to recognize Peking's "sovereignty" over the island and Taipei's "autonomy"-a device the British employed to engineer continued Chinese sovereignty over separatist Mongolia and Tibet after the fall of the Manchu empire...