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Huei, Pang Yang
Strait Rituals, 06/2019Book Chapter
Three months before the Korean War Armistice, the New York Times on April 9, 1953, reported that President Eisenhower was resolved to accept the 38th parallel and would relegate the Taiwan problem to the backburner. The White House hotly denied this embarrassing leak. Well-known columnist Drew Pearson sardonically recorded in his diary, “The White House immediately denied the story, despite the fact that it had come from John Foster Dulles himself.”¹ Denials aside, the account, largely based on the National Security Council meeting the day before, accurately captured the tensions of the Cold War in East Asia. Undoubtedly, in the
