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...visit to the U.S. of Vice-Premier Chiang Ching-kuo, the 60-year-old eldest son of Nationalist China President Chiang Kaishek, was meant to be a quiet affair. He was the guest of Secretary of State William Rogers, who visited Taiwan last summer and invited the general to meet top officials of the Nixon Administration at his convenience. Chiang, the shy, tough head of Taiwan's secret police, dined at the White House but had no private talks with the President. Although his government is unhappy about recent U.S. overtures to Red China, there apparently was no urgent...
...fight against waves of outside agitators sent from, the north by Peking to enforce, national policies. This makes enlightening reading for Americans, who have often misunderstood the on-again, off-again struggle between local and central power in China. American General Joseph Stillwell, for instance, was furious when Chiang Kai-shek ignored his advice to reorganize the Chinese Army in 1942. "With the U. S. on his side and backing him," Stillwell wrote in his diary, "the stupid little ass fails to grasp the big opportunity of his life...
...CHIANG wisely saw all the boobytraps in Stillwell's "opportunity," He ruled, like Chinese emperors in the past, within a web of local understandings and power balances that bound him as tightly as it bound his local commanders. A reorganization of the army would have toppled the delicate balances and sent Chiang tumbling down with them...
...Communists, while energetically pushing Chiang into the sea, exacerbated and then inherited all his problems in controlling the locals. As guerrillas, the Communists had spent their lives ripping bits of China away from central government control. But after winning in 1949 the new Peking leadership had to rein in all their local comrades-some of whom, like the Cantonese, had been isolated for years fighting deep behind Nationalist and Japanese lines...
Despite the turmoil, Vogel insists, in 20 years the Communists have welded a tightly disciplined, centralized approach to national problems that guides the thinking of local leaders throughout the country. This great improvement over Chiang Kai-shek's warlord juggling lets the Chinese approach their goals more surefootedly in 1970 than...