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Gratitude. Until now, Japan has maintained a two-China policy, resolutely refusing to grant diplomatic recognition to the Communist regime. In part this stems from U.S. pressure, but it also reflects a feeling of gratitude toward the Chiang Kai-shek regime, whose magnanimous treatment of the defeated Japanese after World War II was in marked contrast to that meted out by the Soviets and Mao's guerrillas...
...thing," says Tokyo University Professor Shinkichi Eto, "is not to do anything that irritates Peking." To that end, Japan Air Lines and the Nippon Steel Corp., the country's largest steel producer, last week boycotted economic conferences with Taiwan, and five Japanese shipping lines decided to stop serving Chiang Kai-shek's island. Although two-way trade with Peking was less last year than with Taiwan ($825 million v. $955 million), it is a rare Japanese businessman who does not relish the prospect of 800 million potential consumers...
...UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, long noted for its scholarly spokesmen for Chiang Kaishek, still has faculty members known for skepticism about how well U.S. accommodations with the mainland may work out. Historian George Taylor, for example, feels that Nixon's decision to visit China in person has compromised the U.S. bargaining position: "It would be quite sufficient to send the Secretary of State." In recent years Historian Vincent Shih, a China emigré, has been leading a massive research project on the 19th century Taiping Rebellion, a 20-year peasant uprising against domestic corruption that the Communists often cite...
China scholarship is nothing if not passionate. One feud at Yale in the early 1960s involved husband-wife Historians Arthur and Mary Wright and Political Scientist David Rowe. The Yale Daily News had a field day describing the "Rowe-Wright row." Rowe, a staunch defender of Chiang Kaishek, attacked the Wrights, who backed a more pragmatic policy toward Peking, for being too far left...
...Friedman and Washington University Historian Mark Selden explain in a recent collection of essays titled America's Asia, is the ways in which they believe American power has "channeled, distorted and suppressed much that is Asia." For example, the committee supports the contention-shared by both Mao and Chiang-that Taiwan is an integral part of China, and urges that the island's future be worked out without U.S. pressure...