Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chen Chen was picked up for interrogation by Taiwanese security police and questioned for 13 hours about his "anti-Taiwan" activities in the U.S.; the next morning his battered body-13 broken ribs, a fractured pelvis, ruptured internal organs-was found on the grounds of National Taiwan University in Taipei...
Peking apparently remembered that Ronald Reagan had expressed his support of Taiwan during his presidential campaign and pledged, if elected, to upgrade U.S. relations with Taipei. During his visit to Peking, Haig sought to reassure the Chinese leadership that the U.S. had not in fact changed its position. Even before Haig had left Peking, President Reagan undercut him by telling a press conference: "I have not changed my feelings about Taiwan." The Chinese were upset enough to collar Haig at the airport, minutes before his scheduled departure, and upbraid him for the President's remarks. Since then, the attacks...
Ever since Ronald Reagan took office last January, relations between the U.S. and China have been as rocky as a Himalayan footpath. The Chinese are still smarting from his pro-Taiwan statements made during the presidential campaign, and suspect that he will tilt U.S. policy toward Taipei. Stopping in Hong Kong last week, on his way to three days of talks with Chinese leaders in Peking, Secretary of State Alexander Haig admitted that the purpose of his trip was "to clear the air with respect to President Reagan's policies in this region...
...Taiwan government, which still has influential friends in the Reagan White House and on Capitol Hill, saw Haig's visit in another light. Taipei contends that China is using its ties with the U.S. only to conquer short-term difficulties and that the two countries are bound to turn hostile again. And if Washington sells Peking any arms, the Taiwanese warn, beware the long-range consequences. C.J. Chen, director of the North American affairs section of the foreign ministry in Taipei, put it succinctly by quoting a Chinese proverb: " 'If you feed a tiger, sooner or later...
DIED. Wang Shih-chieh, 90, Nationalist Chinese lawyer, scholar and leading diplomat, who as Foreign Minister from 1945 to 1948 participated in the peace talks between Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung; in Taipei...