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Died. T.V. Soong, 77, former Chinese Nationalist official and member of the fabled Soong "dynasty"; of food lodged in his windpipe; in San Francisco. The Harvard-educated son of a Shanghai Bible publisher, and wealthy brother-in-law of both Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kaishek, Soong was called the Alexander Hamilton of China for making economic reforms as Chiang's young Minister of Finance. Soong later rallied the support of Shanghai bankers for the Generalissimo in his 1927 power struggle with the Communists. But during World War II Soong cooperated with Chou En-lai in forging a Nationalist...
moved to New York shortly before the Nationalists fled to Taiwan in 1949. The following year, Soong declined Chiang's invitation to join the island government...
...Nixon stressed, too early to talk seriously about U.S. recognition of Peking or to look for immediate solutions to the many problems that have convulsed U.S.-Chinese relations since the Communist forces of Mao Tse-tung drove Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek...
...political turn-around was for malized on the national level in the spring of 1969 at the Ninth Party Congress. Almost half of the Central Committee seats and more than half of the Politburo seats were taken by army men. Mao's wife Chiang Ching and her radical leftist allies were heavily out numbered. Subsequently, at least three of the more radical Politburo members were also shunted aside. In the provinces, where the party is still being rebuilt, army men joined forces with old party cadres to squeeze out the young radicals. The result: 15 of 19 first secretaries...
...policies toward China had hardened almost as soon as the Communists took over that country in 1949. The enmity was only heightened by China's intervention in the Korean War. Congressional leaders-particularly Republicans-constructed a policy of containment through generous military and economic aid to Chiang Kai-shek's anti-Communist regime and security commitments to shield Taiwan and its satellite islands from mainland control. In the 1950s, election campaigns were fought on a lingering charge that...