Word: taipei
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...basic problem is still Taiwan, just as it was when Richard Nixon began the normalization of relations with China six years ago. The Communists insist that the U.S. close its embassy in Taipei, abrogate its 24-year-old mutual defense treaty with Nationalist China, and accept the Communist claim that the offshore stronghold is simply a province of the People's Republic. "We are talking about recognition," Chinese Vice Premier Teng Hsiaoping said during his current visit to Tokyo, but "on these three conditions we are waiting for the U.S. to make up its mind...
...lead to difficulties and frustrations, if only because Luciani no longer exists as a candidate. He was a compromise, to be sure, but a happy one, whose graces and goodness had hitherto shone only in a small corner of a great church. Asks Archbishop Stanislaus Lokuang of Taipei with evident skepticism: "Will it be possible to find a man with the same qualities?" Though Luciani once described himself as a "wren" among bishops, his papacy revealed him as a rather rarer bird. His reputation for doctrinal conservatism made him acceptable to the traditionalists who voted on the first ballot...
Keeping cool, of course, does not mean giving up. Far from it. Because it has refused to abandon its fundamental tenet-that Peking's leaders are revolutionary upstarts and not the legitimate rulers of China-the Nationalist regime established in Taipei by Chiang Kai-shek when he fled the mainland in 1949 has become a diplomatic Ishmael. Since 1971, when Taiwan was expelled from the U.N. to make room for Peking, a total of 39 countries have severed relations with Taipei. Today only 23 nations maintain diplomatic relations, and the U.S. and staunchly anti-Communist Saudi Arabia...
...establishment of quasi-official trade and cultural offices. By far the most important of these "private" relationships is with Japan, whose so-called Interchange Association with Taiwan is staffed by Foreign Office officials on "temporary leave." Japan does more business with Taiwan today than before it broke with Taipei and established relations with Peking...
...plane air force, which includes advanced U.S. F-5E fighters, is considered superior to the mainland's obsolescent fleet; moreover, the Communists do not have the amphibious craft needed to land troops on the island. Still, a U.S. decision to break its formal ties with Taipei could be devastating to Taiwanese morale. But until it happens-if it does-there is no way of knowing just how serious the psychological blow to Taiwan will be if it loses, finally, its most powerful ally...