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...speak of the possibility of establishing a "two China Policy" by recognizing Mao Tse-tung as the legitimate ruler of the Chinese mainland." Actually, the United States is already supporting a two China policy, implicitly if not explicitly. By refusing to countenance any attempt on the part of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to regain the mainland, President Eisenhower and the State Department have recognized that, in the military sphere, the Communist government is in effective control of the territory...
...most pressing illustration of the conflicting aims of U.S. policy. Quemoy and Matsu, within the range of artillery from the mainland, could easily ignite a general conflagration. Here the dilemma is clear: in a sudden crisis, the U.S.--almost certainly without aid from her allies--could intervene to support Chiang's forces to untenable positions and a strong enemy. But either choice would be ruinous; war over indefensible islands without allied support would be folly in our own eyes and aggression in the eyes of the Asian neutrals. Yet abandonment of Chiang would appear as retreat from a victorious enemy...
...continuing question of "Who Lost China" would indicate that some change has taken place in Asia; yet present policy seems to ignore the fact that Chiang Kai shek no longer rules over 500,000,000 Chinese. Like the ostrich who tries to wish away unpleasant facts by burying his head in the sand, the U.S. stubbornly continues to recognize the Nationalists as the government of China. Unfortunately the revolution is over, and Mao Tse-Tung has implanted in China a ruthless but stable regime. Almost every Asian expert--from professors to State Department advisers to private observers--agrees that...
There are important practical reasons, as well as legal precedents, for extending recognition to Red China. One main advantage to the U.S. would be a likely rise in U.S. prestige among neutral Asian nations. Newly independent Asians tend to look upon Chiang's government as a remnant of a corrupt, colonial past--a past that for them the Communist seem to have destroyed. Asian nations like India, Burma, and Indonesia should be more willing to listen to U.S warning about the dangers of Red China if they do not think we are clinging to a discredited past...
...democracies or boost China as the "wave of the future." Not only do many Asian nations already have ties with Peiping, but U.S. recognition--as part of negotiated settlement--could appear as a tactical advance for the United States, Other objections often center around the problems of "Selling out" Chiang to Formosa and on Pciping's admission to the United Nations--both of which will be considered in tomorrow's editorial...