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...their part, Chiang and his government are deeply disturbed by Nixon's approach. A two-China policy damages the Chiang regime's vestigial claim to be the legitimate government of all China. Ever since the Nationalists arrived on Taiwan as refugees from the mainland in 1949, the regime's status as an embattled government in exile has served to justify its tight, autocratic rule of the island. The 2,000,000 mainlanders enjoy a number of political and economic perquisites, but the 12 million native Taiwanese have only token representation in the Taipei government. The change...
Talking Tough. For the moment, however, it is not the native Taiwanese but pro-Nationalist extremists who most threaten the serenity of Chiang's island fief. A bomb went off last October in a USIS library, and last month another smashed a Bank of America branch. The incidents remain unexplained, but just in case they presage more anti-U.S. explosions, American businessmen have begun to seal off auxiliary entrances to stores and factories and to hire extra guards...
...bristling letter to the White House, 200 Taiwanese legislators last week warned Nixon that his policy was "unrealistic and fallacious." Taipei's semi-independent United Daily News, in an almost unheard of salvo at Chiang's Cabinet, blasted the Foreign Ministry for being "cowardly and insensitive" in making Taiwan's case in Washington. Last week mild-mannered Foreign Minister Wei Tao-ming, 72, a Paris-educated lawyer and wartime Ambassador to the U.S., abruptly decided to retire, citing reasons of health. The "Gimo," who is now 83, has also decided that the Nationalists should press their case...
...public, Taipei's leaders continue to rail against "appeasement." But in private a more realistic reassessment of Taiwan's future is under way. Some Taiwanese fret that anything so dramatic as walking out of the U.N. the moment Communist China comes in might cost the Chiang regime much of its good will in the U.S., and thus accelerate the trend toward U.S. accommodation with Peking. As one Nationalist official puts it, the great fear is that ultimately "a two-China policy might lead to a one-China policy." By that he meant a situation under which...
Though the U.S. has a treaty commitment to defend Taiwan, it is not generally recognized that for two decades Washington has officially regarded Taiwan's status as "unsettled," meaning that its future must eventually be resolved by the political heirs of Mao and Chiang themselves. Peking could eventually decide that, like Hong Kong, an autonomous Taiwan could be a useful portal to the world. With one of the strongest economies in Asia, Taiwan could not only survive but prosper even more by trading with its giant neighbor...