

     Of . Reagan and China 
     
    
     by Joseph Sanlei 
     
    
     As a Republican, I am 
     
     perhaps entitled to a few 
     
     moments of gloating over the 
     
     results of the past U.S. . 
     
     election. I think that I 
     
     M I Ilsavourthose moments. 
     
     The Free World will be in 
     
     . far more capable hands 
     
     for the next four years 
     
     than it has been for the 
     
     last four;- 
     
    
     Not only has the 
     
     control of the White ' 
     
     House been handed over 
     
     through the auspices of the 
     
     democratic process to a 
     
     Republican Administration, 
     
     but for the first time in 
     
     twenty—six years the 
     
     Senate is in Republican 
     
     hands. In the house, the 
     
     G.O.P. is but twenty-six 
     
     seats away from a majority 
     
     as well! I offer my 
     
     heartfelt congratulations 
     
     to the President-Elect, his 
     
     administrations in waiting, 
     
     the future leaders of the 
     
     Upper House, and most 
     
     heartily to the American 
     
     people for the wisdom of 
     
     their dmoice. I am glad 
     
     that through the absentee— 
     
     ballot system of the State 
     
     of Connecticut, I was 
     
     allowed to add my voice to 
     
     the loud sound of acclaim 
     
     which greeted the next 
     
     President and Vice President 
     
     of the United States last 
     
     Novatber 4th. 
     
    
     I—kmever, the purpose 
     
     of this article is not to 
     
     gloat. In fact, it is to 
     
     point out a serious dilemma 
     
     which now faces President- 
     
     Elect Reagan. In addition 
     
     to the matter of the 
     
     hostages held by the 
     
     Iranian terrorists. under 
     
     the sanction of that 
     
     nation's fanatical 
     
     government, now for more 
     
     than one year; the battle 
     
     of the tyrants now enSueing 
     
    
     . shorter. 
     
    
     between Iran and Iraq; the 
     
     failing accords of Camp 
     
     mvid; Soviet Commmist 
     
     adventurism, imperialism 
     
     and militarism - all of 
     
     Whid‘l are accelerating; 
     
     dimmity among the world's 
     
     democracies; the failure of 
     
     NM!) mmbers to maintain 
     
    
     an adequate defence posture. 
     
     The next resident of 1600 
     
     Pennsylvania Ave. will also.: 
     
    
     have to decide what course 
     
    
     the United States is going 
     
     to take, in the near future, 
     
     with regards to the 
     
     Republic of China or 
     
     Taiwan(ROC) . 
     
    
     and fighting bravely for 
     
     their rightgto remain non- 
     
     ccnmunist. . 
     
    
     . Just as the Ibd 
     
     Chinese leviathan‘s existance 
     
     is beyond doubt, so too is 
     
     the existance of the 
     
     Republic of China. The ICC 
     
     maintains the second 
     
     highest standard of living 
     
     for its people, and the 
     
     second largest G.N.P. in 
     
     all of Asia, next to 
     
     Japan. The ROC also 
     
     amintains a"partly—free" 
     
     rating from Freedom House, 
     
     the international watchdog 
     
     of political liberty, and 
     
    
     'me Roc is increas' 1 loses a "freeﬁrating largely 
     
      an emr—leakylng y because of actions taken 
     
    
     and tenous ship of state 
     
    
     by Taipei in lieu of the 
     
    
     with regards to International begier nature 0f the 
     
    
     Law. As more and more 
     
     countries recognize Peking 
     
     (the capital of Red China) 
     
     as the sole, legitimate 
     
     government of all China, 
     
     the province of Taiwan 
     
     included, the tenure of 
     
     Taipei (the ROC capital) 
     
    
     as a viable center of 
     
     government grows ever 
     
    
     Now, it is obvious 
     
     that Red China's size, 
     
     population, and longevity 
     
     as a state (calling itself 
     
     the "People's Republic" — 
     
     an unearned epithet not 
     
     unlike others used to 
     
     colorably mask communist 
     
     dictatorships) entitile it, 
     
     in a world of real-politic, 
     
     to recognition. Ignoring 
     
     the beast will not make it 
     
     somehow go away. It may 
     
     also prove useful for the 
     
     Free World to exploit the 
     
     Peking—Moscow rift as a way 
     
     of  a balance of 
     
     power - the so-called 
     
     "C‘I'Iina car". 
     
    
     But these facts do not“ 
     
    
     change the very substantive 
     
     fact that off the coast of 
     
     this Red giant, just across 
     
     the narrow Strait of 
     
     Formosa, there exist 17 
     
     million—plus people clinging 
     
     to their tenuous position, 
     
    
     Republic. Yes, there have 
     
     been and continues to be 
     
     cases of unwarranted 
     
     repression and corruption 
     
     periodically throughout 
     
    
     The“. UPEI SUN,Thursday, November 20, 1980. page 9 
     
    
     'ON THE UNIVERSITY RIG-HT 
     
    
     However, is anyone seriously 
     
     willing to argue that 
     
     repression is less on the 
     
     Mainland? 
     
    
     The issue here is 
     
     commitment - carmitment 
     
     to the principle of 
     
     honoring alliances. Eyen 
     
     if, as inthis case with the 
     
     recognition fo Peking, the 
     
     nature, in legalistic 
     
     terms, the nature of 
     
     alliances are altered, the 
     
     moral force remains in 
     
     effect. President-Elect 
     
     lbagan pledged a renewed 
     
     American commitment to the 
     
     friends of the U.S. in the 
     
     Republic of China (a friend- 
     
     ship going back to the 1911— - 
     
     12 in the revolution of 
     
     Sun Yat Sen) during the 
     
     campaign. It is my 
     
     current hope that by 
     
     employing carefully I 
     
     constructed means, this is 
     
     one campaign pledge which 
     
    
     the ROC's history. will be honored. Good 
     
     " ' luck Mr. Reagan. 
     
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