70 Year Magazine Archive

The Republic of China

by David Nelson Rowe

What’s the feeling in Nationalist China six months later as Richard Nixon’s plane lands in Peking? Do they trust the U.S.? Are they preparing other defensive alliances? Do they think they can survive?

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The Republic of China (ROC) includes not only Taiwan and the neighboring Pescadores Islands, but the Matsu and Kinmen (Quemoy) groups close up to the Communist Mainland. In these territories there are now over fifteen million people who enjoy the fruits of the Modernizing Chinese Revolution of our time. To this Revolution the ROC is the sole heir, and it carries it on with unabated energy, determination, skill and devotion.

Today, as a result of its expulsion from the United Nations and the admission of Red China, the ROC has come to another important crisis in its life. What is it, and what does it mean?

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