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Many observers believe that a group of radicals in the Politburo, headed by No. 3 Man Wang Hung-wen, a leader of the radical cadres in Shanghai, and Mao's wife Chiang Ching, have been trying to use the Confucius-Lin campaign to gain leverage against Chou-possibly with the goal of determining who will eventually succeed the aging...
Only 2½ years ago, the future of Taiwan, last bastion of Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China, seemed gloomy indeed. Within a few months of the mainland's opening outward with Ping Pong diplomacy, tiny Taiwan found itself practically isolated. It was expelled from the U.N. and lost the recognition of 33 of 68 countries, including such important allies as Japan and Australia. But since those dark days, the island of 16 million has not only survived, it has prospered...
Much of the credit for Taiwan's remarkable buoyancy belongs to Generalissimo Chiang's tough and respected son, Chiang Ching-kuo, 63, who became Premier early in 1972; his ailing, octogenarian father retains the titular position of President. Once a Communist revolutionary who lived in Russia for twelve years, the younger Chiang has brought a fresh approach to the patrician politics of Taiwan. Responding to criticism that the government had become isolated from the people, he has adopted such egalitarian practices as stumping the island's small cities and farm villages and talking directly to the people...
...island's most outstanding achievement by far under Chiang's leadership has been its remarkable economic growth. Moving away from his father's obsessive stress on military preparedness, Chiang has based Taipei's continued survival on economic strength. Indeed, after Japan, Taiwan is Asia's greatest success story. Foreign trade in 1973 rocketed to $8.3 billion, up from $5.9 billion the year before. In some industrial products, such as television sets and transistor radios, Taiwan has already surpassed Japan as the main foreign supplier of the U.S. One gloomy note in this otherwise bright picture...
...militant policy statements condemning backsliding in collective agriculture and on relations between soldiers and civilians. Some sort of political confrontation is taking place; one of the few details now known is that Teng Hsiaoping, a capable economic administrator, has recently jumped into the lineup of Politburo members ahead of Chiang Ching, who has been a virtual despot in the performing arts since the Great Cultural Revolution. Chiang Ching, who is married to Mao Tse-Tung, had asked the Philadelphia Orchestra to play Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony last fall, and it is still not clear whether her position has changed...