Word: taishan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without U.S. help. Nanchi was untenable. The island was boxed in by Red-held islands to the north and northwest, and by Red-held Taishan to the south. The cumulative psychological and physical momentum of the Red campaign in the island war is now clearly apparent in Washington (though not in London, as the talks between Dulles and Eden at Bangkok revealed). In recent weeks the Reds have been making a show of air, sea and land strength south along the coast below Shanghai...