Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nationalist regime on Taiwan shows every sign that it expects to hold power for some time to come. The island's economy is booming. A huge new foreign ministry is going up in the middle of Taipei, and on a lush green hill at the edge of the city the Grand Hotel is adding a twelve-story wing. Still, there is an air of nervousness if not desperation in the diplomatic counteroffensive that the Nationalists are mounting in the face of Peking's recent successes. Sixty-three countries still recognize Taipei as the legal government of China...
Sweet and Sour. President Nixon will not be deterred by Taipei's diplomatic offensive from his declared intent of improving relations with Peking. The President's next signal will be to define the terms of more liberal trade. In April, Nixon freed U.S. business to sell directly to China for the first time in 22 years. This week or next Nixon is expected to announce which goods may and may not be traded with China. Despite such gestures, however, as long as the problem of Taiwan remains unsolved, Peking is unlikely to change its current sweet-and-sour...
...SITS IN THE U.N.? The question of what to do is urgent, since it is entirely probable that the United Nations will vote this fall to admit Peking at Taipei's expense. Nixon has been considering two options: to continue to side with Taipei and oppose Peking's admission, or to push for a separate seat for each. Last month a 50-man commission chaired by former Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge recommended in effect a "two Chinas" policy, which the U.S. could pursue by voting to admit Peking but opposing the expulsion of Taiwan...
...People's Republic on the mainland without expelling the Republic of China on Taiwan, the result could be a game of international chicken. Both governments have long vowed not to sit in the U.N. if the other is there as well-but which one would swerve first? Taipei's Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai told TIME Correspondent Bruce Nelan that, as in the case of diplomatic recognition, "the negotiation and announcement is one matter and the final appearance [of Peking's men] is still another. Our position is that as soon as a formal diplomatic representative...
...brewing U.N. debate raises two prickly questions: Who owns Taiwan? Who governs China? The State Department six weeks ago declared that "in our view, sovereignty over Taiwan is an unsettled question, subject to future international resolution." Peking and Taipei alike were infuriated, since both insist that sovereignty clearly belongs to whatever government rules China...