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Kennedy said that he was opposed to recognition of Red China. He indicated, however, that strong arguments had been presented to him in favor of the so-called “two Chinas policy.” Under this policy, Nationalist China would retain its seat on the Security Council, and Red China would have only a seat in the Assembly. This would mean that Red China would have only one vote out of about a hundred in the Assembly and would not be able to block UN action by veto.

1962, Richard M. Nixon, Six Crises, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 408

As early as August we had publicly withdrawn our opposition to consideration of this question and indicated our support of the concept of the "two Chinas," Chiang Kai-shek's Republic of China on Taiwan and the Communist People's Republic of China, each to have membership in the world organization.

1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 556

The existence of an independent Taiwan seems to be still very much a fact of life, which Peking will just for the moment have to accept. What is more, there seems to be no prospect for Taiwan, with its healthy economic and political performance, to become a cast-off on the world trade and political scene anywhere in the foreseeable future. The idea of One China may have gained some theoretical acceptance; it's still Two Chinas in the real world. The careful wording of the foreign ministry note in Peking is an indication that Red China is well aware of the realities. It has no choice. Otherwise it might well find, like King Canute, that it is one thing to challenge the waves - quite another to turn the tide.

1983 August 21, “Chinese Realities”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXIV, number 33, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 4

The Commissioner General asked for Foreign Office guidance in view of his information about earlier events relating to the British claim. In reply, the Foreign Office, in a telegram dated 12 June 1956, pointed out that as there was now a territorial dispute involving the two Chinas, the Philippines and possibly Vietnam over the Nansha Islands the British vessel should ‘stay well clear’ of Spratly Island.

1987, Geoffrey Marston, “Abandonment of Territorial Claims: The Cases of Bouvet and Spratly Islands”, in The British Year Book of International Law 1986, volume 57, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 356

At the weekly news briefing in Peiching [Beijing] on Thursday, a spokeswoman for Mainland China's Foreign Ministry accused Taipei of promoting a two Chinas policy.

1993 November 29 [1993 November 27], “Mainland Comments Said 'Irrational'”, in Daily Report: China, number 227, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Taipei Voice of Free China, "News" program, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74, column 1