With communist domination expanding in all areas, Mainland China is in crisis as remnants of the Nationalist regime and their supporters hold out in the Canton area, Yunnan, Szechuan, and the northwest. Some are moving to Taiwan, which is an area not yet under Chinese sovereignty.
Telegram: from the Ambassador in China ( Stuart ) to the Secretary of State
Date: December 17, 1948
Subject: American policy toward Taiwan
The problem of Taiwan presents, however, certain differences from other peripheral areas. Inhabitants, after more than generation of Japanese rule and their geographic detachment from the mainland, have developed political sense of autonomy which, if anything, has been strengthened by Chinese maladministration [since close of hostilities]. Despite commitment of Cairo declaration, Taiwan is still legally part of Japanese empire and occupied territory.
[ source: Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, The Far East: China, Volume VII Document 550 ]
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