Word: taipei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Benjamin I. Sehwartz '38, professor of History and Government, said he had "some worries" about the removal of Nationalist China, but believed "the benefit of Peking in the U.N. outweighs the expulsion of Taipei...
...fact is that if the Taipei regime were expelled, the mainland Communists, with their superb theatrical sense, could conceivably have a man on the floor of the General Assembly the next day to deliver a maiden speech. If Peking is admitted but Taipei is allowed to retain its seat, however, Mao's men will almost certainly stay away...
Only a few years ago, it might have been much less trouble to save the seat. If the U.S. had proposed dual representation of Peking and Taipei in the mid-1960s, say, it would almost certainly have won overwhelming U.N. approval. Of course, Mao Tse-tung and his lieutenants have long said that they would never join the U.N. while Chiang's Nationalists remained members, and they are men who mean what they say. But even if Peking had refused to join right away, the U.S. would have been safely out from under its outdated China policy...
Supporting dual U.N. representation for Peking and Taipei may be the best policy alternative available to the U.S., but it has many liabilities. If it succeeds, its effect may be to keep Peking out for another year. Thus even some pro-American delegates suspect that they are being used to achieve this result and help Richard Nixon cement his relations with U.S. conservatives in advance of the 1972 election. If the American effort fails, the U.S. loses prestige. Yet the plan has a sort of perverse virtue in that it offers neither total victory nor total defeat...
...independent entity but a province of China, there are no "legal grounds" for the U.S. policy. The issue, in this view, is not one of expelling a member, but deciding which of two claimants to a single seat possesses authentic credentials. The U.S. argues that the Taipei regime governs a population of 14 million -a larger "reality" than any of the latest U.N. entries...