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Weak Hand, Skillful Player: Chiang Kai-shek’s diaries and the game of international diplomacy
Publication Date: January 2008
Publisher(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Author(s): Paul H. Tai
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Funder(s): Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Keywords: Chiang Kai-shek; Taiwan; Diplomacy
Type: Brief
Coverage: Taiwan
Abstract:
Chiang Kai-shek, leading the Republic of China during the tumultuous 1930s and 1940s, defied the conventional adage that weak nations have no diplomacy. As illuminated by the Chiang diaries housed at the Hoover Institution, Chiang bargained with the world’s great powers from a position of weakness and achieved some remarkable objectives.