Chapter 32 At the end, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek failed to shake hands and left!Will the high-level handshake be far away?

Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek have not yet shaken hands and left!Now that handshakes among the people are commonplace, will high-level handshakes be far away? (Taipei-Beijing, April 1975-September 1976) Chiang Kai-shek suffered from chronic prostatitis in his later years, and suffered from pneumonia again, which caused a heart attack. In addition, there was a car crash at a fork in Yangmingshan. Chiang's car collided with a general's car, causing an accident .His body never recovered.He passed away at 11:50 pm on Ching Ming Festival, April 5, 1975, at the age of eighty-eight. From the twists and turns experienced by Chiang Kai-shek after retreating to Taiwan Island, no matter what his political motivation or partisan consciousness was, he was adhering to "one China" and opposing "two Chinas" and "one China, one Taiwan", affirming that Taiwan is A part of China has a consistent position.On this major issue, Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong had a strong consensus.

In his later years, he publicly expressed his opposition to the idea of ​​"two Chinas" many times.On September 7, 1967, he said in a conversation with Japanese Prime Minister Sato: Because the United States did not want to be involved in China's "counterattack against the mainland", "therefore, there was the idea of ​​two Chinas, so as to be strict for a while. Little did they know The two-China approach is something I absolutely oppose, and it is not acceptable to the CCP, it is just an illusion." In mid-January 1974, taking advantage of the turmoil of China's "Cultural Revolution", the South Vietnamese authorities sent warships to invade the waters of the Yongle Islands in the Paracel Islands, and sent troops to occupy Ganquan and Jinyin Islands. red flag.

Chiang Kai-shek immediately instructed the Taiwan side to issue a statement on South Vietnam's violation of the sovereignty of the Xisha and Nansha Islands, indicating that the two islands are Chinese territory and shall not be violated.At that time, when someone asked Chiang Kai-shek whether he would dispatch warships to intercept the communist fleet sailing across the strait, he pondered for a long time, and only said: "The war in Xisha is tight!" In 1971, when the United Nations General Assembly might accept the People's Republic of China and expel the Republic of China, Chiang Kai-shek instructed Zhou Shukai, the representative to the United Nations, to lead a delegation to withdraw from the conference venue. , Don’t be surprised when things change.”In fact, it is a painful acceptance that there is only one China in the United Nations.

Around the Spring Festival of 1975, Chiang Kai-shek sent a message to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China through a secret channel to invite Mao Zedong to visit Taiwan through Mr.Chen Lifu was eager to talk, and without getting any reply, he publicly published an article entitled "If I Were Mao Zedong" in a Hong Kong newspaper.In the article, Chen Lifu welcomed Mao Zedong or Zhou En to visit Taiwan, and reopened negotiations with Chiang Kai-shek for the benefit of the country and the people.Chen Lifu especially appealed to Mao Zedong to "take the big things to the small" and ignore the previous suspicions, follow the precedent of the Northern Expedition and the anti-Japanese Kuomintang and Communist Party's two-time cooperation, and create a new situation of cooperation again.

The information from the mainland has not yet come back, and Chiang Kai-shek has passed away.Before his death, he declared that he would "recover the mainland" in the future, and that he would move his body back to Nanjing and be buried beside Mr. Zhongshan. In Mao Zedong's later years, at the last moment of his life, he was almost sick on the bed and dealt with state affairs.Heart disease, emphysema, cerebrovascular disease and other diseases tortured him to the point of exhaustion.His legs were weak and he couldn't move, his lips were struggling to speak, and his hands were trembling and he couldn't hold a very light pen, but he was still working.

On the evening of September 8, 1976, just a few hours before Mao Zedong left this world, he also received a telegram from Japan's Takeo Miki.He read the telegram.He passed out with this telegram.The time of coma was 8:10 pm on September 8, 1976.Rescue is in progress. The curve showing Mao Zedong's heartbeat on the TV screen was fluctuating and shaking.The curve suddenly became a straight line, a slightly jittery straight line.The time is 0:10 on September 9th.He was eighty-three years old. A great man has passed away.Some unfinished business has been left in the mind, and the reunification of the motherland and the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party are very important ones.

After the three "Taiwan Straits Crisis" in 1950, 1955 and 1958, Mao Zedong had adjusted his policy towards Taiwan from "liberating Taiwan with arms and eliminating Chiang Kai-shek's traitorous clique" to "realizing the first Three KMT-CCP ​​cooperation to strive for the peaceful liberation of Taiwan" policy. As early as 1956, Mao Zedong proposed to realize the third cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.On April 16, 1957, Zhou Enlai held a grand reception for visiting Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union Voroshilov.When Zhou Enlai introduced Mr. Wei Lihuang, the former senior Kuomintang general present here, to Voroshilov, he said: "The Kuomintang and the Communist Party have cooperated twice in the past." Mao Zedong then added: "We are preparing for the third time. Cooperation." On April 17, the People's Daily published this news on the front page, with the headline "Chairman Mao Said, We Are Still Preparing for the Third Kuomintang-Communist Cooperation".

After the Kinmen artillery battle in 1958, on February 2, 1959, when Mao Zedong talked about the current situation in Taiwan to the secretaries of the provincial and municipal party committees, he said: "Is it better for Taiwan to be President Chiang Kai-shek or Hu Shih? Is it better to be Chen Cheng? In my opinion, Chiang Kai-shek is better. But we don’t go to international events if he is there. As for being the president, he is better... 10 or 20 years will change. If you give him food, you can give him some soldiers. , Let him engage in secret agents, engage in the Three People's Principles, everything that should not be negated in history must be properly estimated, and everything cannot be negated." Why did Mao Zedong comment on Chiang Kai-shek in this way?Because the relationship between Taiwan and the United States was very complicated at that time, Hu Shi and Chen Cheng had a background of interference from foreign forces, and Chiang Kai-shek was absolutely unambiguous in adhering to the one-China position.

After the "Cultural Revolution" was launched.Under the interference of Lin Biao and the "Gang of Four", activities to discuss the cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the peaceful reunification of the motherland were interrupted, and the slogan "Taiwan must be liberated" was put forward again.This is a repetition, and this repetition undermines the process of peaceful reunification of the motherland, which cannot but be said to be a major political loss. At the United Nations General Assembly in the fall of 1971, in view of the continuous improvement of the status of the People’s Republic of China, the United States adjusted its policy toward China and gathered 19 countries including Japan to propose a “dual representation” proposal, namely: the People’s Republic of China became a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. In the United Nations General Assembly, both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of China enjoy representation.In this regard, Mao Zedong clearly instructed that we will never get on the thief ship of the "two Chinas".

After the United Nations accepted the People's Republic of China and obtained the representative status of one China, Mao Zedong has always been obsessed with the great event of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party.In his later years, Mao Zedong was working on promoting the peace talks between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party and the peaceful reunification of the motherland. Mao Zedong first mentioned Chiang Kai-shek when he met with President Nixon in the spring of 1972.He referred to Chiang Kai-shek as his "mutual friend" with Nixon, and said that the history of his friendship with Chiang Kai-shek was much longer than the history of Nixon's friendship with Chiang Kai-shek.In September of the same year, when Mao Zedong met with Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka and talked about the Taiwan issue, he showed great respect for Chiang Kai-shek's consistent attitude on maintaining China's unification.

Immediately afterwards, in the spring of 1973, he came up with the idea of ​​sending Mr. Zhang Shizhao to Hong Kong by special plane, in order to build a bridge of peace between the mainland and Taiwan.Mr. Zhang Shizhao unfortunately died of illness in Hong Kong. Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek are dead, and it has been more than 30 years since they left.It's a pity that they failed to shake hands and leave!However, Chinese people on both sides of the strait believe that there is only one China. Why don't people's hearts be anxious for the unification of the country and the take-off of China?Fortunately, over the years, the confrontation has been eliminated and the communication has become closer: ——On April 27, 1993, Wang Daohan, chairman of the Mainland China Association for Astronomical Relations, shook hands with Koo Chen-fu, chairman of the Taiwan Straits Foundation, and held the first "Wang-Koo Talks"; —— On April 29, 2005, Lien Chan, Chairman of the Kuomintang, visited the mainland for the first time to shake hands and hold talks with Hu Jintao, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China; ——On May 12, 2005, James Soong, chairman of the People First Party, visited the mainland for the first time to shake hands and hold talks with Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Communist Party of China. ——On May 28, 2008, Wu Boxiong, the current chairman of the Kuomintang, visited the mainland for the first time to shake hands and hold talks with Hu Jintao, the general secretary of the Communist Party of China; —— On July 12, 2008, Yu Muming, chairman of the new party, visited the mainland to shake hands and hold talks with Hu Jintao, general secretary of the Communist Party of China; ...