RE: Korean-War:UN Peace Keeping

["Martin Dunne" <martindunne@bigpond.com.au>]

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Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2002 1:43 PM
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Subject: Re: Korean-War:UN Peace Keeping


At 11:56 PM 5/8/02 EDT, Jhk789@aol.com wrote:
>>The legality of the
>>Security Council is still debated because two permanent
>>member states--Soviet Union and mainland China--did not
>>approve the action.
>
>Red China was not then a member of the UN.  The seat they now occupy was
>then held by the proper Chinese government, the ROC based on Taiwan.  This
>changed in 1971 or '72 as part of a Red block effort to embarrass the US.
>
>Marc
>
>...

...and the Soviets had walked out, attempting to pressure the UN to
recognise mainland China instead of Taiwan China. No veto, no comeback. All
that was left for them was to grouse about it.

Incidentally, this is the single greatest piece of evidence that Communism
was neither monolithic nor a conspiracy- they had shot themselves in the
foot.