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-a treaty of mutual defense-will be broken. Washington now formally rec- ognizes the regime in Peking as "China." Yet, for almost three decades, the United States was anti-Communist Taiwan's indis- pensable ally. The Americans supplied the late Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist regime with military backing, money, and, in the UN, support for its claim to represent all China. Can Taiwan's prosperous people survive the rupture with Washington? Here, Taiwan scholar Parris Chang...
from the Com- munists on the mainland:
"For the stubborn aging (63)leader, the flight across the sampan-flecked Strait of Formosa was a time for bitter remembrance. . . . He had broken warlords, checked an early international Communist conspiracy, survived Japanese aggression, only to go down before IMao Zedong's armies] and the corruption which grew up in his own wartorn regime. . . . Chiang would try to fight on Formosa though the U.S. and British governments had written off the strategic...
's shape and position- slightly askew, off the southeast coast of China-suggests noth-ing so much as a ship adrift, isolated, vulnerable to storm and tide. No one now takes seriously the old, persistent claims of Taiwan's government-in-exile to sovereignty over the mainland. The island's one-time allies and sometime friends dwindle in number, as rich and poor nations alike hasten to curry favor with the vast People's Republic across the Strait. Jimmy Car- ter's administration is only the latest...