Word: taipei
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Richard Nixon's arrival in the White House was welcomed with particular warmth in Taipei. After all, the former Vice President was well known as a vigorous antiCommunist, and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek naturally expected him to continue Washington's longstanding policy of isolating the Red government on China's mainland. Of late, however, the warmth has turned to deep dismay over the Nixon Administration's increasingly friendly gestures toward the mainland government...
Damaged Claim. So far, Washington's overtures have alienated the Republic of China in Taipei without noticeably mollifying the People's Republic in Peking. By moving toward a two-China policy, Washington offends both governments-since each claims to be the true representative of all Chinese people. The new, more realistic China policy espoused by Nixon is an obvious net gain for Peking. But the Chinese Communists are not about to respond to any attempt to improve relations so long as the war in Indochina continues. The U.S., in fact, has once again replaced Russia in Peking...
...most logical course would seem to be unilateral U.S. recognition of both Peking and Taipei. The "two Chinas" plan, however, would infuriate both Chinas. Taiwan would condemn the policy, though it would probably not break with the U.S. Peking would probably repudiate the move, convinced that the U.S. was trying to deny them Taiwan. The U.S. would thus be left with an alienated ally and an enemy even more antagonistic than before. Nevertheless, virtually all State Department Sinologists feel that a slow conversion to a "two Chinas" policy is the only worthwhile course open to Washington. They have been advocating...
...week the Chinese scored a major success in that strategy. After 20 months of negotiation in Stockholm initiated by Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, Peking and Ottawa announced that they would establish diplomatic relations immediately. Trudeau had also agreed to break off relations with Nationalist China, but Taipei beat him to the punch. Just before the new Peking-Ottawa link was announced, Taiwan's Ambassador Hsueh Yu-chi severed his country's diplomatic ties with Canada and took leave of the country in a tearful farewell scene...
...five years or more." all G.I.s in South Korea would be withdrawn when ROK forces were modernized. TAIWAN: Agnew's visit to 82-year-old Chiang Kai-shek was the closest thing to a courtesy call on his itinerary. The U.S. has only a military advisory mission in Taipei, and Agnew himself summed up Chiang's request for more modern jet planes even before he arrived in Taiwan. "I would guess," he said of Chiang, "he would like to have anything he can get. I have never seen him refuse anything." SOUTH VIET NAM: From the moment...