Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles' statement was made public in Washington while the secretary was flying home from talks at Taipei, Formosa, with Chiang Kai-shek...
...communique issued at Taipei on the Dulles-Chiang conference contained a public renunciation of the use of force by Nationalist China to return to the mainland. It said the Nationalists would rely upon peaceful means to carry out their "sacred mission" of freeing China's 600 million people from Communist rule...
...Chiang's immediate response was to announce that he rejected the appeal "firmly, vigorously and unequivocally.") In Taipei last week Chiang Kai-shek told crowds celebrating "Double Ten"-the Oct. 10 anniversary of the foundation in 1911 of Sun Yat-sen's Chinese Republic-that the cease-fire was just another piece of Communist "political treachery." But in Warsaw the U.S. pressed the unyielding Chinese Communist bargainers for an extension of the ceasefire, and at week's end Peking announced that it had decided to keep the guns silent for another 14 days...
...Chinese." Yet more was obviously involved than a Red retreat. Peking was eager to exploit a wedge it thought it detected between Washington and Taipei. The cease-fire was announced by Peking's Defense Minister (and former Korean war commander) Peng Teh-huai. whom Chinese Reds delight in calling "the man who beat MacArthur.'' Addressing himself to "my compatriots'' in Formosa, Peng began: "We are all Chinese. Formosa, Quemoy and Matsu are Chinese territories. This is an internal Chinese matter between you and us. not between China and the U.S." Fact is. Peng told...
Announcements in Taipei and Washington said Dulles will come here in accordance with the two countries' Mutual Defense Treaty, which calls for periodic meetings of the foreign ministers...