Word: tsiang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...important effect of President Eisenhower's order deneutralizing Formosa was brought out last week by Nationalist China's permanent representative to the U.N., Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang. Said he: "President Eisenhower's message was the first time since the end of the war that China has received from the United States moral aid . . . Economic and military aid without the accompaniment of moral aid does not go far ... If the United States, in these days of its world responsibility, were to make more use of its moral prestige in aid to peoples struggling for freedom, the people...
...that the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa are free to move, what do they hope to accomplish, and what kind of help do they need? In New York, bespectacled Tsiang Ting-fu, chief Nationalist delegate to the United Nations, carefully laid out his government's attitude...
...asked to, but only if asked to, Chiang Kai-shek is willing to reconsider his 1950 offer of three Formosan divisions to fight with the U.N. armies in Korea. "That offer . . . was refused," Tsiang said. "We understand the grounds for the refusal. [We have not] renewed our offer . . . We ourselves are not convinced that Korea is the best place for the Free Chinese to make a contribution...
...Nationalist China's greatest contribution would be "an independent offensive" against the Chinese Reds. Said Tsiang: "I myself have a new suggestion to make . . . My plan is not that American air and naval power should be used to help Free China's infantry to invade the mainland. My plan is that Free China should acquire enough naval and air power . . . so that [it] can independently invade and liberate the mainland." (On Formosa last week, President Chiang Kai-shek emphasized only that he "will not ask for aid in ground forces...
...believe," said Diplomat Tsiang, "that an independent offensive on the part of my government will be welcomed by our fellow countrymen on the mainland. Such an offensive is not in the nature of the conquest of mainland China by the island of Formosa. It is in the nature of 8,000,000 Chinese on Formosa going to the mainland to help the 450 million Chinese there to overthrow the Communist yoke which they themselves wish to overthrow...