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The article comments on the interest of the U.S. military on the strategic island of Formosa. The beautiful island has more than seventy airfields just 150 miles from the coast of the communist China. Formosa has mills to press camphor and refine sugar, factories to produce cloth and paper and aluminum, canneries to pack fish and fruit and hydroelectric plants to power the island.

This article focuses on several socio-political issues. Success in coping with the financial and economic crisis will be the touchstone of the new French government headed by Felix Gouin, Socialist leader, That crisis is, reflected in the growing scarcity of necessities on the legal market, in the continued rise in prices, in the difficulty of arranging for urgently required imports. China's political consultative council has apparently made considerable progress in bridging the political chasm between the Kuomintang Party of Taiwan and the Communists. The problem of nationalizing the Kuomintang and Communist military forces seems well on the way to settlement as a result of the agreement to create a joint command.

The article focuses on the invasion by Red China of the Quemoy and Matsu islands in Taiwan. Chinese Premier Chou En-lai said that his government is willing to resume diplomatic talks with the U.S. which has been broken because of Washington's decision to use its Seventh Fleet to block the Red invasion. If the U.S. gave in to Red China, the U.S.-backed Nationalists would weaken their position off the China mainland. Under the two Chinas policy, the U.S. has accepted the Communists control of the mainland but refused to accept the Peking government.

The author presents information on the participation of Chinese baseball players in the Little League World Series that will be held in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1974. He talks about how Taiwanese people view the Little League baseball as a worldwide tournament and mentions an incident wherein Americans accused the Chinese of cheating. He also reports on the success achieved by China in such sport.

Looks at the status of the relations of China with the U.S. during the regime of U.S. President Richard Nixon. Information on the defense treaty of the U.S. with Taiwan; Impact of the relations of the U.S. with Taiwan on its relations to China; Plans of the U.S. government on China.

The article focuses on the issues concerning the cease-fire in Quemoy, Taiwan. It mentions that U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles with Walter Robertson, the Assistant Secretary for Far Eastern Affairs and State Under Secretary Christian Herter determined the consensus that the Communists ceased shooting because their Quemoy barricade failed. It says that Dulles attempted to sustain cease-fire wherein he was notified that Red China would extend the cease-fire for another two weeks.

This article focuses on the causes of the recent uprising in Taiwan. According to a report, eighteen months ago the Nanking government had a chance to make Taiwan the showpiece, which Japan had planned it to be in the greater East Asia sphere. A relatively efficient Japanese bureaucracy had monopolized the islands agriculture, trade, and Industry, gearing them to Japan's economy, but in so doing, it had helped Taiwan achieve a high industrial and agricultural level. Taiwan was, and is, about thirty years ahead of Mainland China in industrial development, with more factories than any Chinese province except Kiangsu. Although it suffered damages during war.

The article focuses on the business condition in Taiwan as of March 1947. Taiwan was re-ceded to China after 51 years of Japanese control. The Taiwanese are planning to appeal before the United Nations regarding the maladministration of the Chinese government. Under Japan's Greater East Asia plan, Taiwan became a producer of chemicals, petroleum, and aluminum.

The article reports that American businessmen are gearing up for trade with mainland China under the administration of U.S. president Richard Nixon. The businessmen are eager to sell to China because of its huge market despite the displeasure of Taiwan. The products they are hoping China would buy include reconditioned passenger jets, feed grains, and construction supplies. However, they anticipate financing problems and hope that lines of credit will become available when trade with China happens.

The article focuses on the reflections of Mao Tse-tung regarding the policy changes of Peking, China in Quemoy, Taiwan. It states that Peking proclaimed a cease-fire in Quemoy and then present a policy of attacking the area on alternate days, which did not understand by Communists. It mentions that Red China has published a selected anthology of speeches and writings by Mao since 1940 regarding the superiority of U.S. military over Red China to ensure that Chinese understanding of the policy.

This article focuses on the economic condition of Formosa. Tax delinquency reached more than 2.3 million cases. Unemployment is on the increase, and suicides fill news columns. To mitigate social unrest Chiang Kai-shek's propaganda machine blares out the hollow promise of the reconquest of China! By taking 1948 as his base year, a year in which the Formosan economy came virtually to a halt due to systematic "squeeze," he obtains a three-fold increase in production for mining, etc., in 1958. Absolute growth in production in sectors such as textile and power has not been sufficient to compensate for population growth and the marked decline of sugar production, which is still the largest single industry.

Focuses on Taiwan that represents a free society in the Communist China. Information that there are no more soldiers in the streets of Taipei, Taiwan, than in most cities of its size, no visible signs of the garrison state; Opinion of U.S. Foreign Aid Chief David Bell regarding the utilization of American aid in Taiwan; Similarity between Taiwan and China before the Communists tried to reshape China to their own dreary image.

Deals with the actions taken by the U.S. government to insist upon Taiwan's retention of its seat in the United Nations General Assembly. Agenda placed by Secretary General U. Thant; Actions that mainland China might take in response to the U.S. moves; Significance of the U.S. support of Taiwan.