When tough, tiny (5 ft. 5 in., 110 lbs.) Chen Cheng, the Vice President and Premier of Nationalist China, flew into Washington's MATS terminal one day last week, the capital simmered in tropical 90° heat. But more than the weather had Chen warm under the collar. After years of concord, relations between the U.S. and her stanchest Pacific ally seemed to be falling into disturbing disarray.
Nationalist China began to wonder about John Kennedy and his advisers even before the election, when the future President implied that Quemoy and Matsu were not worth...
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