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...China crisis makes me curious to see what the Chiang Kai-shek haters will come up with this time after all those variations on "I have seen the future, and it works," after each visit to the Communists. Also to be heard from are the ChiCom dreaders, with their dire forebodings about the mighty Red Chinese nation, a dedicated monolith poised to crush all Asia at any provocation...
...moment, they are watching and waiting-and stressing politics rather than military force as the most effective current weapon against Red China. "Our present task," says Chiang Kaishek, "is to adapt ourselves to the changes in the world situation and create new opportunities for ourselves. Though we are convinced that our military counteroffensive will be the decisive force to roll back the tides of treachery and suffering, we must bear in mind that as far as the present situation is concerned, politics must not only precede military action but politics must be considered as surpassing military action in importance...
Mainland Sabotage. Nonetheless, Chiang stands ready for any eventuality. The country's 600,000-man army is well trained and well equipped, and Chiang keeps 80,000 troops poised and battle-ready on Taiwan's sister islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which are still bombarded now and then by Communist shore batteries. His high-flying U-2s regularly overfly the mainland taking pictures of Red China's defenses. Nationalist agents still cross the Strait of Taiwan to infiltrate the mainland. Chiang's government claims that 40 anti-Communist incidents occurred on the mainland between March...
...Chiang is also preparing his government for whatever may come. At a time when Red China is mired in economic troubles along with its seemingly endless series of purges, he and his lieutenants are quietly building Asia's strongest government, its second strongest economy (after Japan) and, despite 17 years of exile, an esprit that somehow continues to embody the tenuous dream of mainland recovery. To improve the government, Chiang recently called for "new policies" and "modernized governmental mechanisms." In an obvious dig at Peking's harangues about "revisionism," he is also pushing a "revision" of the Kuomintang...
...Hope. Just how far things will go on the mainland, Chiang can only guess like everyone else. His one hope is that he will still be around when-and if-the Nationalists ever return. In case he is not, Chiang, now 79, has already made provision for the transfer of power to his oldest son and political heir: Chiang Ching-kuo, 56, Taiwan's Defense Minister. Late last month, at the annual meeting of the party's Central Committee, 600 KMT delegates voted Chiang-and hence his successor-the right to appoint a special national security council with...