Chiang Ching-kuo

President of Taiwan from 1978 to 1988

In this Chinese name, the family name is  Chiang (蔣).

Chiang Ching-kuo

蔣經國

Official portrait, 1985

3rd President of the Republic of China
In office
20 May 1978 – 13 January 1988
Premier|

See list

* Hsu Ching-chung (acting)
Sun Yun-suan
Yu Kuo-hwa

Vice President| Hsieh Tung-min
Lee Teng-hui
Preceded by| Yen Chia-kan
Succeeded by| Lee Teng-hui
1st Chairman of the Kuomintang
In office
5 April 1975 – 13 January 1988
Preceded by| Chiang Kai-shek (Director-General of the Kuomintang)
Succeeded by| Lee Teng-hui
9th Premier of the Republic of China
In office
29 May 1972 – 20 May 1978
President| Chiang Kai-shek
Yen Chia-kan
Vice Premier| Hsu Ching-chung
Preceded by| Yen Chia-kan
Succeeded by| Hsu Ching-chung (acting)
11th Vice Premier of the Republic of China[a]
In office
1 July 1969 – 1 June 1972
Premier| Yen Chia-kan
Preceded by| Huang Shao-ku
Succeeded by| Hsu Ching-chung
9th Minister of National Defense
In office
14 January 1965 – 30 June 1969
Premier| Yen Chia-kan
Preceded by| Yu Da-wei
Succeeded by| Huang Chieh
Minister without Portfolio
In office
15 July 1958 – 13 January 1965
Premier| Chen Cheng
Yen Chia-kan
2nd Minister of Vocational Assistance Commission for Retired Servicemen
In office
25 April 1956 – 1 July 1964
Premier| Yu Hung-chun
Chen Cheng
Yen Chia-kan
Preceded by| Yen Chia-kan
Succeeded by| Chau Chu-yue
Personal details
Born| (1910-04-27)27 April 1910[note 1]
Fenghua, Zhejiang, Qing China
Died| 13 January 1988(1988-01-13) (aged 77)
Taipei, Taiwan
Resting place| Touliao Mausoleum, Daxi District, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Political party| Kuomintang
Spouse|

Faina Vakhreva

(m. 1935)​

Children| Chiang Hsiao-wen
Chiang Hsiao-chang
Chiang Hsiao-yen
(illegitimate, disputed[1])
Winston Chang
(illegitimate, disputed[1])
Chiang Hsiao-wu
Chiang Hsiao-yung
Education| Moscow Sun Yat-sen University
Signature|
Military service
Branch/service| Republic of China Army
Years of service| 1937–1968
Rank|  General

Chiang Ching-kuo with his father Chiang Kai-shek (1930s) Chiang Ching-kuo

"Chiang Ching-kuo" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters

Traditional Chinese| 蔣經國
Simplified Chinese| 蒋经国
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| Jiǎng Jīngguó
Wade–Giles| Chiang3 Ching1-kuo2
IPA| [tɕjàŋ tɕíŋ.kwǒ]

Romanization| Wu Chinese pronunciation: [tɕiã tɕiŋ.koʔ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization| Jéung Gīng-gwok
Jyutping| Zoeng2 Ging1-gwok3
IPA| [tsœŋ˧˥ kɪŋ˥.kʷɔk̚˧]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJ| Chiúⁿ Keng-kok
Tâi-lô| Tsiúnn King-kok

Chiang Ching-kuo (/ˈtʃæŋtʃɪŋˈkwəʊ/ Jiang Jing Guo,[2] 27 April[note 1] 1910 – 13 January 1988) was a politician of the Republic of China. The eldest and only biological son of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, he held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China and ended martial law in 1987. He served as the 3rd premier of the Republic of China between 1972 and 1978 and was president of the Republic of China from 1978 until his death in 1988.

Born in Zhejiang, Ching-kuo was sent as a teenager to study in the Soviet Union during the First United Front in 1925, when his father's Nationalist Party and the Chinese Communist Party were in alliance. Before his education in the USSR, he attended school in Shanghai and Beijing, where he became interested in socialism and communism.[3] He attended university in the USSR and spoke Russian fluently,[4] but when the Chinese Nationalists violently broke with the Communists, Joseph Stalin sent him to work in a steel factory in the Ural Mountains. There, Chiang met and married Faina Vakhreva. With war between China and Japan imminent in 1937, Stalin sent the couple to China. During the war, Ching-kuo's father gradually came to trust him, and gave him more and more responsibilities, including administration.

After the Japanese surrender, Ching-kuo was given the job of ridding Shanghai of corruption, which he attacked with ruthless efficiency. The victory of the Communists in 1949 drove the Chiang family and their ROC government to retreat to Taiwan. Ching-kuo was first given control of the secret police, a position he retained until 1965 and in which he used arbitrary arrests and torture to ensure tight control as part of the White Terror. He then became Minister of Defense (1965–1969), Vice-Premier (1969–1972) and Premier (1972–1978). After his father's death in 1975, he took leadership of the Kuomintang (KMT) as chairman, and was elected president in 1978 and again in 1984.

Under his tenure as president, the government of the Republic of China in Taiwan, while remaining authoritarian, became more open and tolerant of political dissent. Chiang courted Taiwanese voters, and reduced the preference for those who had come from the mainland after the war. Toward the end of his life, Chiang decided to relax government controls on the media and speech, and allowed Han born in Taiwan into positions of power, including his eventual successor Lee Teng-hui. He was the last president of the Republic of China to be born during the rule of the Qing dynasty. Ching-kuo was credited for his Soviet-inspired city planning policies,[5] economic development with Ten Major Construction Projects in Taiwan, efforts to clamp down on corruption, as well as the democratic transition of Taiwan and gradually shifting away from the authoritarian dictatorial rule of his own father Chiang Kai-shek.[6]

## Biography

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### Early life

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Chiang Ching-kuo in his youth

The son of Chiang Kai-shek and his first wife, Mao Fumei, Chiang Ching-kuo was born in Fenghua, Zhejiang, with the courtesy name of Jiànfēng (建豐). He had an adopted brother, Chiang Wei-kuo. "Ching" literally means "longitude", while "kuo" means "nation"; in his brother's name, "wei" literally means "parallel (of latitude)". The names are inspired by the references in Chinese classics such as the Guoyu, in which "to draw the longitudes and latitudes of the world" is used as a metaphor for a person with great abilities, especially in managing a country.

While the young Chiang Ching-kuo had a good relationship with his mother and grandmother (who were deeply rooted to their Buddhist faith), his relationship with his father was strict, utilitarian and often rocky. Chiang Kai-shek appeared to his son as an authoritarian figure, sometimes indifferent to his problems. Even in personal letters between the two, Chiang Kai-shek would sternly order his son to improve his Chinese calligraphy. From 1916 until 1919 Chiang Ching-kuo attended the "Grammar School" in "Wushan Temple" an important temple in Xikou Town. Then, in 1920, his father hired tutors to teach him the Four Books, the central texts of Confucianism. On 4 June 1921, Ching-kuo's grandmother died. What might have been an immense emotional loss was compensated for when Chiang Kai-shek moved the family to Shanghai. Chiang Ching-kuo's stepmother, historically known as the Chiang family's "Shanghai Mother", went with them. During this period Chiang Kai-shek concluded that Chiang Ching-kuo was a son to be taught, while Chiang Wei-kuo was a son to be loved.

During his time in Shanghai, Chiang Ching-kuo was supervised by his father and made to write a weekly letter of 200–300 Chinese characters. Chiang Kai-shek also underlined the importance of classical books and of learning English, two areas he was hardly proficient in himself.[7] On 20 March 1924, Chiang Ching-kuo was able to present to his now-nationally famous father a proposal concerning the grass-roots organization of the rural population in Xikou.[8] Chiang Ching-kuo planned to provide free education to allow people to read and to write at least 1000 characters. In his own words:

> I have a suggestion to make about the Wushan School, although I do not know if you can agree to it. My suggestion is that the school establish a night school for common people who cannot afford to go to the regular school. My school established a night school with great success. I can tell you something about the night school:

> Name: Wuschua School for the Common People Tuition fee: Free of charge with stationery supplied Class hours: 7 pm to 9 pm Age limit: 14 or older Schooling protocol: 16 or 20 weeks. At the time of the graduation, the trainees will be able to write simple letters and keep simple accounts. They will be issued a diploma if they pass the examinations. The textbooks they used were published by the Commercial Press and were entitled "One thousand characters for the common people." I do not know whether you will accept my suggestion. If a night school is established at Wushan, it will greatly benefit the local people.

In early 1925, Chiang entered Shanghai's Pudong College, but Chiang Kai-shek decided to send him on to Beijing because of warlord action and spontaneous student protests in Shanghai. In Beijing, he attended the school organized by a friend of his father, Wu Zhihui, a renowned scholar and linguist. The school combined classical and modern approaches to education. While there, Ching-kuo started to identify himself as a progressive revolutionary and participated in the flourishing social scene inside the young Communist community. The idea of studying in Moscow now seized his imagination.[9] Within the help program provided by the Soviet Union to the countries of East Asia there was a training school that later became the Moscow Sun Yat-sen University. The participants to the university were selected by the CPSU and KMT members, with a participation of CPC Central Committee.[10]

Chiang Ching-kuo asked Wu Zhihui to name him as a KMT candidate. Wu did not try to dissuade him, even though Wu was a key figure of the right-leaning and anti-Communist "Western Hills Group" of the KMT. In the summer of 1925, Chiang Ching-kuo traveled south to Whampoa Military Academy to discuss his plans for study in Moscow with his father. Chiang Kai-shek was not keen, but after a discussion with Chen Guofu he finally agreed. In a 1996 interview, Ch'en's brother, Chen Li-fu, recalled that Chiang Kai-shek accepted the plan because of the need to have Soviet support at a time when his hold over the KMT was tenuous.[11]

### Moscow

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With or without his father's enthusiastic approval, Chiang Ching-kuo went on to Moscow in late 1925. He stayed in the Soviet Union for nearly twelve years. While there, Chiang was given the Russian name Nikolai Vladimirovich Elizarov (Николай Владимирович Елизаров) and put under the tutelage of Karl Radek at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. Noted for having an exceptional grasp of international politics, his classmates included other children of influential Chinese families, most notably the future Chinese Communist party leader, Deng Xiaoping. Chiang Ching-kuo joined the Communist Youth League under Deng.[12][13] Soon Ching-kuo was an enthusiastic student of Communist ideology, particularly Trotskyism; though following the Great Purge, Joseph Stalin privately met with him and ordered him to publicly denounce Trotskyism. Chiang even applied to be a member of the All-Union Communist Party, although his request was denied.

In April 1927, however, Chiang Kai-shek purged KMT leftists, had Communists arrested or killed, and expelled his Soviet advisers. Chiang Ching-kuo responded from Moscow with an editorial that harshly criticized his father's actions but was nonetheless detained as a "guest" of the Soviet Union, a practical hostage. The historiographic debate still continues as to whether he was forced to write the editorial, but he had seen Trotskyist friends arrested and killed by the Soviet secret police. The Soviet government sent him to work in the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant, a steel factory in the Urals, Yekaterinburg (then Sverdlovsk), where he met Faina Ipat'evna Vakhreva, a native Belarusian. They married on 15 March 1935, and she would later take the Chinese name Chiang Fang-liang. In December of that year, their son, Hsiao-wen was born.

Chiang Kai-shek refused to negotiate a prisoner swap for his son in exchange for a Chinese Communist Party leader.[14] He wrote in his diary, "It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son."[15][16] In 1937, he maintained that "I would rather have no offspring than sacrifice our nation's interests", since he had no intention of stopping the war against the Communists.[17]

### Return to China and WWII

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Stalin allowed Chiang Ching-kuo to return to China with his Belarusian wife and son in April 1937 after living in the USSR for 12 years.[18][19]

By then, the NRA under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communists under Mao Zedong had signed a ceasefire to create the Second United Front and fight the Japanese invasion of China, which began in July 1937. Stalin hoped the Chinese would keep Japan from invading the Soviet Pacific coast, and he hoped to form an anti-Japanese alliance with the senior Chiang.[citation needed]

On Ching-kuo's return, his father assigned a tutor, Hsu Dau-lin, to assist with his readjustment to China.[20] Chiang Ching-kuo was appointed as a specialist in remote districts of Jiangxi where he was credited with training of cadres and fighting corruption, opium consumption, and illiteracy. Chiang Ching-kuo was appointed as commissioner of Gannan Prefecture (贛南) between 1939 and 1945; there he banned smoking, gambling and prostitution, studied governmental management, allowed for economic expansion and a change in social outlook. His efforts were hailed as a miracle in the political war in China, then coined as the "Gannan New Deal" (贛南新政). During his time in Gannan, from 1940 he implemented a "public information desk" where ordinary people could visit him if they had problems, and according to records, Chiang Ching-kuo received a total of 1,023 people during such sessions in 1942.[citation needed]

In regard to the ban on prostitution and closing of brothels, Chiang implemented a policy where former prostitutes became employed in factories. Due to the large number of refugees in Ganzhou as a result from the ongoing war, thousands of orphans lived on the street; in June 1942, Chiang Ching-kuo formally established the Chinese Children's Village (中華兒童新村) in the outskirts of Ganzhou, with facilities such as a nursery, kindergarten, primary school, hospital and gymnasium. During the last years of the 1930s, he met Wang Sheng, with whom he would remain close for the next 50 years.[citation needed]

The paramilitary "Sanmin Zhuyi Youth Corps" was under Chiang's control. Chiang used the term "big bourgeoisie", in a disparaging manner to call H.H. Kung and T. V. Soong.[21]

While in mainland China, Chiang and his wife had a daughter, Hsiao-chang, born in Nanchang (1938), and two more sons, Hsiao-wu, born in Chongqing (1945),[19] and Hsiao-yung, born in Shanghai (1948).[19]

### Relationship with Chang Ya-juo and her death

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Chiang met Chang Ya-juo when she was working at a training camp for enlistees and he was serving as the head of Gannan Prefecture during the war. The two had a relationship that brought twin sons: Chang Hsiao-tz'u and Chang Hsiao-yen, born in 1942.[22][23] In August 1942, Chang felt sick at a dinner party, and died the next day in a Guilin hospital. The circumstances of her death raised speculation that it was murder. Over the years, many of her relatives, including her sons and highly ranked ex-security personnel, insisted that KMT's security apparatus orchestrated her murder to keep a lid on CCK's marital affair, and to protect CCK's political career.[24]

### Hostage claim

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Jung Chang and Jon Halliday claim Chiang Kai-shek allowed the Communists to escape on the 1934–1935 Long March because he wanted Stalin to return Chiang Ching-kuo.[25] This is contradicted by Chiang Kai-shek's diary, "It is not worth it to sacrifice the interest of the country for the sake of my son."[15][16] He refused to negotiate for a prisoner swap of his son in exchange for the Chinese Communist Party leader (Zhou Enlai).[26] Again in 1937 he stated about his son: "I would rather have no offspring than sacrifice our nation's interests." Chiang had absolutely no intention of stopping the war against the Communists.[17] Chang and Halliday likewise claim that Chiang Ching-kuo was "kidnapped" in spite of the evidence that he went to study in the Soviet Union with his father's own approval.[25]

### Economic policies in Shanghai

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Chiang Ching-kuo in 1948 Chiang Ching-kuo (left) with father Chiang Kai-shek in 1948.

After the Second Sino-Japanese War and during the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Ching-kuo briefly served as a liaison administrator in Shanghai, trying to eradicate the corruption and hyperinflation that plagued the city. He was determined to do this because of the fears arising from the Nationalists' increasing lack of popularity during the Civil War. Given the task of arresting dishonest businessmen who hoarded supplies for profit during the inflationary spiral, he attempted to assuage the business community by explaining that his team would only go after big war profiteers.

Chiang Ching-kuo copied Soviet methods, which he learned during his stay in the Soviet Union, to start a social revolution by attacking middle class merchants. He also enforced low prices on all goods to raise support from the Proletariat.[27]

Chiang Ching-kuo used his own agents to make arrests in Shanghai, rather than the Shanghai city police.[28]: 178 Chiang Ching-kuo relied on two relatively new organizations which answered directly to him.[28]: 178 He used the Sixth Battalion of the Bandit-Suppression National-Reconstruction Corps to search warehouses for hoarded goods and to place secret report boxes in the city where people could anonymously report violators.[28]: 178–179 He also used the Shanghai Youth Service Corps for enforcement.[28]: 179

As riots broke out and savings were ruined, bankrupting shopowners, Chiang Ching-kuo began to attack the wealthy, seizing assets and placing them under arrest. The son of the gangster Du Yuesheng was arrested by him.

Ching-kuo ordered KMT agents to raid the Yangtze Development Corporation's warehouses, which was privately owned by H.H. Kung and his family, as the company was accused of hoarding supplies. H.H. Kung's wife was Soong Ai-ling, the sister of Soong Mei-ling who was Chiang Ching-kuo's stepmother.

Chiang Ching-kuo had H.H. Kung's son son David Kung and several employees of the Yangtze Development Corporation arrested on allegations of holding foreign exchange.[28]: 181 Soong Mei-ling called Chiang Kai-shek to complain and also called Chiang Ching-Kuo directly.[28]: 182 David Kung was eventually freed after negotiations, and Chiang Ching-kuo resigned, ending the terror on the Shanghainese merchants.[29]

The major impact of Chiang Ching-kuo's campaign was to cause the flight of prominent capitalists from Shanghai to Hong Kong and elsewhere.[28]: 183 The failure of the campaign also affected Ching-kuo's political influence and reputation temporarily.

### Political career in Taiwan

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After the Nationalists lost control of mainland China to the Communists in the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Ching-kuo followed his father and the retreating Nationalist forces to Taiwan. On 8 December 1949, the Nationalist capital was moved from Chengdu to Taipei, and early on 10 December 1949, Communist troops laid siege to Chengdu, the last KMT-controlled city on mainland China. Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo directed the city's defense from the Chengdu Central Military Academy, before the aircraft May-ling evacuated them to Taiwan; they would never return to mainland China.

In 1950, Chiang's father appointed him director of the secret police, which he remained until 1965. An enemy of the Chiang family, Wu Kuo-chen, was kicked out of his position of governor of Taiwan by Chiang Ching-kuo and fled to America in 1953.[30] Chiang Ching-kuo, educated in the Soviet Union, initiated Soviet-style military organization in the Republic of China Military, reorganizing and Sovietizing the political officer corps, surveillance, and KMT party activities were propagated throughout the military. Opposed to this was Sun Li-jen, who was educated at the American Virginia Military Institute.[31]

General Chiang Ching-kuo met with US President John F. Kennedy at the White House, 11 September 1963

Chiang orchestrated the controversial court-martial and arrest of General Sun Li-jen in August 1955, allegedly for plotting a coup d'état with the American CIA against his father.[30][32] General Sun was a popular Chinese war hero from the Burma Campaign against the Japanese and remained under house arrest until Chiang Ching-kuo's death in 1988. Ching-kuo also approved the arbitrary arrest and torture of prisoners.[33]

Defense Minister Chiang Ching-kuo visited the Pentagon with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, 23 September 1965

From 1955 to 1960, Chiang administered the construction and completion of Taiwan's highway system. Chiang's father elevated him to high office when he was appointed as the ROC Defense Minister from 1965 until 1969. He was the nation's Vice Premier between 1969 and 1972, during which he survived a 1970 assassination attempt while visiting the U.S.[34] Afterwards he was appointed the nation's Premier between 1972 and 1978.

In 1970, Chiang was the target of an assassination attempt in New York City by Peter Huang.[35]: 27

As Premier Chiang organized a people's diplomacy campaign in the United States in an effort to mobilize American political sentiment in opposition to the PRC through mass demonstrations and petitions.[36]: 42 Among these efforts, the KMT worked with the John Birch Society to launch a petition writing campaign through which Americans were urged to write their local government officials and ask them to "Cut the Red China connection."[36]: 42

As Chiang Kai-shek entered his final years, he gradually gave more responsibilities to his son, and when he died in April 1975, Vice President Yen Chia-kan became president for the balance of Chiang Kai-shek's term, while Chiang Ching-kuo succeeded to the leadership of the KMT (he opted for the title "Chairman" rather than the elder Chiang's title of "Director-General").

### Leadership

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Chiang Ching-kuo was elected president of the ROC in the 1978 Taiwanese presidential election by the National Assembly on 20 May 1978. He was reelected to another term in the 1984 Taiwanese presidential election. At that time, the National Assembly consisted mostly of "ten thousand year" legislators [zh], men who had been elected in 1947–48 before the fall of mainland China and who would hold their seats indefinitely. Starting from the 1970s when his father grew sick, Chiang became the de facto leader of the regime and reformed many of his father's autocratic policies and gradually phased out of the white terror by allowing the freedom of peaceful assemblies and political pluralism of the Tangwai movement, which later became the DPP. Chiang also turned down many of the suggestions of the conservatives in the KMT regime to violently suppress the protesters.[6]

In a move he launched the "Ten Major Construction Projects" and the "Twelve New Development Projects" which contributed to the "Taiwan Miracle". Among his accomplishments was accelerating the process of economic modernization to give Taiwan a 13% growth rate, $4,600 per capita income, and the world's second largest foreign exchange reserves. On 16 December 1978, U.S. president Jimmy Carter announced that the United States would no longer recognize the ROC as the legitimate government of China. Under the Taiwan Relations Act, the United States would continue to sell weapons to Taiwan, but the TRA was purposely vague in any promise of defending Taiwan in the event of an invasion.

Chiang Ching-kuo also enacted major labor rights reforms throughout the 1970s and the 1980s that addressed child labor, women's employment, working time, pensions, paid leave, employment contract with several legislations such as the "Labor Safety and Hygiene Law" in 1974 and the "Factory Law" in 1975. The average salary of Taiwanese workers tripled under his rule. Chiang Ching-kuo also loosened the harsh anti-strike laws and union busting practice, thus giving the labor movement more opportunity to bargain for fairer wages as he lifted the martial law provisions.[37]

In an effort to bring more Taiwan-born citizens into government services, Chiang Ching-kuo "exiled" his over-ambitious chief of General Political Warfare Department, General Wang Sheng, to Paraguay as an ambassador (November 1983),[38] and hand-picked Lee Teng-hui as vice-president of the ROC (formally elected May 1984), first-in-the-line of succession to the presidency. Chiang emphatically declared that his successor would not be from the Chiang family in a Constitution Day speech on 25 December 1985:[39]

> The first question is the succession to the presidency. This sort of question only exists in despotic and totalitarian countries. It does not exist in the Republic of China, based on the Constitution. So the next president will be elected in accordance with constitutional procedure by the National Assembly on behalf of the people. Some people may raise the question whether any member of my family would run for the next presidency. My answer is: it can't be and it won't be.[40]

Chiang Wei-kuo, Chiang's younger brother, would later repudiate the declaration in 1990 after he was selected as a vice-presidential candidate.[41]

On 15 July 1987, Chiang finally ended martial law and allowed his family to visit the mainland. The ban on tourism to Hong Kong and Macau was also lifted. His administration saw a gradual loosening of political controls and opponents of the Nationalists were no longer forbidden to hold meetings or publish political criticism papers.

Opposition political parties, though still formally illegal, were allowed to operate without harassment or arrest. When the Democratic Progressive Party was established on 28 September 1986, President Chiang decided against dissolving the group or persecuting its leaders, but its candidates officially ran in elections as independents in the Tangwai movement.

Chiang Ching-kuo also increased the political representation of Native Taiwanese under his rule, allowing them to have various positions, which paved the way for Lee Teng-hui to come to power and further democratize Taiwan.[42]

### Death and legacy

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Chiang Ching-kuo lies in state.

Chiang Ching-kuo died at Taipei Veterans General Hospital on 13 January 1988, aged 77, from a heart attack.[43][44] He used a wheelchair during the last months of his life, and also had diabetes, alongside vision and heart problems.[45] He was interred temporarily in Daxi Township, Taoyuan County (now Daxi District, Taoyuan City), but in a separate mausoleum in Touliao, a mile down the road from his father's burial place. The hope was to have both buried at their birthplace in Fenghua once mainland China was recovered. Composer Hwang Yau-tai wrote the Chiang Ching-kuo Memorial Song in 1988.

In January 2004, Chiang Fang-liang asked that both father and son be buried at Wuchih Mountain Military Cemetery in Hsichih, Taipei County (now New Taipei City). The state funeral ceremony was initially planned for Spring 2005, but was eventually delayed to winter 2005. It may be further delayed due to the recent death of Chiang Ching-kuo's oldest daughter-in-law, who had served as the de facto head of the household since Chiang Fang-liang's death in 2004. Chiang Fang-liang and Soong Mei-ling had agreed in 1997 that the former leaders be first buried, but still be moved to mainland China.[citation needed]

Murray A. Rubinstein called Chiang Ching-kuo more of a civilian leader than his father, whom Rubenstein refers to as a "quasi-warlord."[46]

Jay Taylor has described Chiang Ching-kuo as a figure who was ideologically inspired by a mix of Soviet communism, Chinese nationalism, Taiwanese localism, and American democracy, who became the helmsman of the democratization of Taiwan.[6]

Unlike his highly controversial father, Chiang Ching-kuo's reputation is overwhelmingly positive among the Taiwanese population as the people of Taiwan recognize his economic and social achievements, as well as his efforts of democratization. 38.7% of the population considers him the best president who contributed the most to Taiwan, and he was rated 84.8/100 by the Taiwanese population.[47][48]

## Memorials

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Statue of Chiang Ching-kuo in Dongyin Township, Lienchiang County (Matsu Islands) Ching-kuo Memorial Hall in Nangan Township, Lienchiang County (Matsu Islands)

### Road names

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* Jingguo road (in Hsinchu)
* Jingguo road (in Taoyuan)

### The Republic of China Air Force

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The AIDC, the ROC's air defense company, has nicknamed its AIDC F-CK Indigenous Defense Fighter the Ching Kuo in his memory.[citation needed]

### Coin

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* 27 April 2010. 蔣經國先生百年誕辰紀念流通硬幣」 [Coin commemorating the 100th anniversary of Chiang Ching-kuo's birth]

### Song

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* Chiang Ching-kuo Memorial Song

## Family

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Family of Chiang Ching-kuo. From left to right: Front – Alex, Faina, Chiang Ching-kuo, Eddie; Rear – Alan, Chiang Hsiao-chang.

* Wife: Faina Chiang Fang-liang, Chiang and she had 3 sons and 1 daughter.
* First son: Alan Chiang Hsiao-wen (14 December 1935 – 14 April 1989)
* Chiang Yu-mei (1961–), British Chinese.
* First daughter: Chiang Hsiao-chang (1938–), married to Yu Yang-ho (俞揚和) until his death in 2010.
* Theodore Yu Tsu-sheng (俞祖聲)
* Second son: Alex Chiang Hsiao-wu (25 April 1945 – 1 July 1991)
* Alexandra Chiang Yo-lan (蔣友蘭)
* Johnathan Chiang Yo-sung (蔣友松), married in 2002.
* a daughter (May 2003–)
* Third son: Eddie Chiang Hsiao-yung (1 October 1948 – 22 December 1996)
* Demos Chiang Yo-bo (10 September 1976–), DEM Inc (橙果設計) founder. He was married in 2003 to Ms Lin Hen Yi (林姮怡).
* Chiang De Xi (蔣得曦, 10 July 2003–)
* Chiang De Yung (蔣得勇, 2005–)
* Edward Chiang Yo-chang (9 November 1978–)
* Andrew Chiang Yo-ching (14 June 1990–)
* Mistress: Chang Ya-juo (1913–1942), Chiang and she had 2 sons.
* Winston Chang Hsiao-tzu
* Chang Ching-sung (章勁松), married on 2 November 1999.
* Chang Yu-chu (章友菊, 1978–)
* John Chiang Hsiao-yen
* Vivian Chang (?–), married in 2004.
* Chiang Hui-yun (蔣蕙筠, 1977–), married on 29 April 2007.
* Chiang Wan-an (26 December 1978–), married in 2008.
* Chiang De Ri (蔣得立, June 2011–), born in the United States.

### Family tree

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Chiang family tree

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宋美齡| | Mao Fumei
毛福梅| | Chiang Kai‑shek
蔣介石| | | | | | | | | | Yao Yecheng
姚冶誠
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陳潔如
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蔣方良| | Chiang Ching-kuo
蔣經國| | Chang Ya‑juo
章亞若
(mistress)| | Shih Chin‑i
石靜宜| | Chiang Wei‑kuo
蔣緯國
(adopted)| | Chiu Ju‑hsüeh
丘如雪| | Chen Yao‑kuang
陳瑶光
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Alan Chiang Hsiao‑wen
蔣孝文| | Amy Chiang Hsiao‑chang
蔣孝章| | | Alex Chiang Hsiao‑wu
蔣孝武| | | | | | | Eddie Chiang Hsiao‑yung
蔣孝勇| | Winston Chang Hsiao‑tzu
章孝慈| | John Chiang Hsiao‑yen
蔣孝嚴| | Chiang Hsiao‑kang
蔣孝剛
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Nancy Xu Nai‑jin
徐乃錦| | | | | Yu Yang‑ho
俞揚和| | | Wang Zhang‑shi
汪長詩| | Michelle Tsai Hui‑mei
蔡惠媚| | | Elizabeth Fang Chi‑yi
方智怡| | | Chao Chung‑te
趙申德| | | Helen Huang Mei‑lun
黃美倫| | | Wang Yi‑hui
王倚惠
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俞祖聲| | | | | | | Chang Ching‑sung
章勁松| | Chang Yo‑chu
章友菊| | Vivian Chiang Hui‑lan
蔣惠蘭| | Chiang Hui‑yün
蔣惠筠| | Chiang Wan‑an
蔣萬安| | | |
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Chiang Yo‑mei
蔣友梅| | Alexandra Chiang Yo‑lan
蔣友蘭| | Johnathan Chiang Yo‑sung
蔣友松| | Demos Chiang Yo‑bo
蔣友柏| | Edward Chiang Yo‑chang
蔣友常| | Andrew Chiang Yo‑ching
蔣友青| | Chiang Yo‑chüan
蔣友娟| | Chiang Yo‑chieh
蔣友捷|
Notes

* Dashed lines represent marriages
* Dotted lines represent extra-marital relationships and adoptions
* Solid lines represent descendants

## See also

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Chiang Ching-kuo.

* Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation
* Cross-Strait relations
* Views on Chiang Ching-kuo [zh]
* History of the Republic of China
* Military of the Republic of China
* National Revolutionary Army
* Politics of the Republic of China
* Seven Seas Residence
* Sun Yat-sen
* Sino-Soviet relations
* Taiwan–United States relations

## Notes

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1. ^ a b Many sources, even Taiwanese official ones, give 18 March 1910 as his birthday, but this actually refers to the lunisolar traditional Chinese calendar.

1. ^ Republic of China is commonly known as Taiwan

## References

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### Sources

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Books cited

* Taylor, Jay (2000). The Generalissimo's Son: Chiang Ching-Kuo and the Revolutions in China and Taiwan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-00287-3.
* Fenby, Jonathan (2005). Chiang Kai Shek: China's Generalissimo and the Nation He Lost. Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 0-7867-1484-0.

## Further reading

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* Matray, James I., ed. East Asia and the United States: an encyclopedia of relations since 1784. Vol. 1 (Greenwood, 2002) 1:274–275.

## External links

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* Corpus of Political Speeches Free access to political speeches by Chiang Ching-kuo and other Chinese politicians, developed by Hong Kong Baptist University Library

Government offices

Preceded by

Yu Ta-wei [zh]

|  Minister of National Defence of the Republic of China
1965–1969  | Succeeded by

Huang Chieh

Preceded by

Yen Chia-kan

|  Premier of the Republic of China
1972–1978  | Succeeded by

Sun Yun-suan

Political offices
Preceded by

Yen Chia-kan

|  Acting Vice President of the Republic of China
1975–1978  | Succeeded by

Hsieh Tung-ming

Preceded by

Yen Chia-kan

|  President of the Republic of China
1978–1988  | Succeeded by

Lee Teng-hui

Party political offices
Preceded by

Chiang Kai-shek
Director-General of the Kuomintang

|  Chairman of the Kuomintang
1975–1988  | Succeeded by

Lee Teng-hui

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* e

Presidents of the Republic of China

Provisional Government|

* Sun Yat-sen (1912)
* Yuan Shikai (1912–1913)

Beiyang government|

* Yuan Shikai (1913–1916)
* Li Yuanhong (1916–1917)
* Feng Guozhang (1917–1918; acting)
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* Li Yuanhong (1922–1923)
* Gao Lingwei (1923; acting)
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* Huang Fu (1924; acting)
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* Hu Weide (1926; acting)
* Yan Huiqing (1926; acting)
* Du Xigui (1926; acting)
* Wellington Koo (1926–1927; acting)
* Zhang Zuolin (1927–1928)

Nationalist government
(Chairman)|

* Tan Yankai (1928)
* Chiang Kai-shek (1928–1931)
* Lin Sen (1931–1943)
* Chiang Kai-shek (1943–1948)

Constitutional government
(Indirect election)|

* Chiang Kai-shek (1948–1949)
* Li Tsung-jen (1949–1950; acting)
* Chiang Kai-shek (1950–1975; resumed)
* Yen Chia-kan (1975–1978)
* Chiang Ching-kuo (1978–1988)
* Lee Teng-hui (1988–1996)

Constitutional government
(Direct election)|

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* Chen Shui-bian (2000–2008)
* Ma Ying-jeou (2008–2016)
* Tsai Ing-wen (2016–2024)
* Lai Ching-te (2024–present)

See also List of presidents of the Republic of China
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Heads of government of the Republic of China

Premiers of Cabinet|

* Tang Shaoyi
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* Duan Qirui*
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Secretaries of State|

* Xu Shichang
* Lu Zhengxiang*

Premiers of State Council|

* Duan Qirui
* Wu Tingfang*
* Li Jingxi

Premiers of State Council|

* Duan Qirui
* Wang Daxie*
* Wang Shizhen*
* Qian Nengxun*
* Gong Xinzhan*
* Jin Yunpeng
* Sa Zhenbing
* Yan Huiqing*
* Liang Shiyi
* Zhou Ziqi*
* Wang Chonghui*
* Wang Zhengting*
* Zhang Shaozeng
* Gao Lingwei
* Sun Baoqi
* Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo*
* Huang Fu*
* Xu Shiying
* Jia Deyao*
* Hu Weide*
* Du Xigui*
* Pan Fu

Presidents of Executive Yuan
(Mainland China)|

* Tan Yankai
* T. V. Soong
* Chiang Kai-shek
* Chen Mingshu
* Sun Fo
* Wang Jingwei
* H. H. Kung
* Zhang Qun
* Weng Wenhao
* He Yingqin

Presidents of Executive Yuan
(Taiwan)|

* Yan Xishan
* Chen Cheng
* Yu Hung-chun
* Yen Chia-kan
* Chiang Ching-kuo
* Sun Yun-suan
* Yu Kuo-hwa
* Lee Huan
* Hau Pei-tsun
* Lien Chan
* Vincent Siew
* Tang Fei
* Chang Chun-hsiung
* Yu Shyi-kun
* Frank Hsieh
* Su Tseng-chang
* Liu Chao-shiuan
* Wu Den-yih
* Sean Chen
* Jiang Yi-huah
* Mao Chi-kuo
* Chang San-cheng
* Lin Chuan
* Lai Ching-te
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* Chen Chien-jen
* Cho Jung-tai

*acting

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* e

Vice premiers (vice presidents of Executive Yuan) of the Republic of China

* Feng Yuxiang
* T. V. Soong
* Chen Mingshu
* T. V. Soong
* H. H. Kung
* Chang Ch'ün
* H. H. Kung
* Weng Wenhao
* Wang Yun-wu
* Ku Meng-yu
* Chang Li-sheng
* Wu Tiecheng
* Chia Ching-teh
* Zhu Jiahua
* Chang Li-sheng
* Huang Shao-ku
* Wang Yun-wu
* Yu Ching-tang
* Huang Shao-ku
* Chiang Ching-kuo
* Hsu Ching-chung
* Chiu Chuang-huan
* Lin Yang-kang
* Lien Chan
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* Hsu Li-teh
* Chiang Hsiao-yen
* Liu Chao-shiuan
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* Chang Chun-hsiung
* Lai In-jaw
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* Yeh Chu-lan
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* Chiou I-jen
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* Paul Chiu
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* Jiang Yi-huah
* Mao Chi-kuo
* Chang San-cheng
* Woody Duh
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Ideology|

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Leaders|

* Sun Yat-sen
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* Hu Hanmin
* Wang Jingwei
* Chiang Ching-kuo
* Lee Teng-hui
* Lien Chan
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* Chiang Pin-kung
* Wu Den-yih
* Eric Chu
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Party congress|

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Leadership elections|

* 2001
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* 2009
* 2013
* 2015 (b)
* 2016 (b)
* 2017
* 2020 (b)
* 2021

Significant venues|

* Huguang Guild Hall
* Presidential Palace (Nanjing)

See also|

* List of assets owned by the Kuomintang
* 2019 Kuomintang presidential primary

Notes: Acting leaders italicised ; By-elections denoted with (b)

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Chinese Civil War

Principal belligerents and campaigns
Nationalist Party /  National Government ( National Revolutionary Army) → Constitutional ROC Government (ROC Armed Forces) → Republic of China on Taiwan

* * *

Communist Party /  Soviet Republic ( Red Army) → Liberated Area ( 8th Route Army, New Fourth Army, etc. → People's Liberation Army) → People's Republic of China

| Pre-1945| Post-1945

|

|  1923|  Sun–Joffe Manifesto

|

1924|  First United Front
1926|  Canton Coup
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1927|  Nanking incident
Shanghai Commune
Shanghai massacre
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715 Incident
Little Long March
Nanchang uprising
Autumn Harvest Uprising
Guangzhou Uprising
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1936|  Xi'an Incident
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1941|  New Fourth Army incident
1944|  Dixie Mission

|  1945|  Chongqing Negotiations
Double Tenth Agreement
Retrocession of Taiwan

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1946|  Jiaochangkou Incident
Peiping rape case
1945–1947|  Marshall Mission
1945–1949|  Operation Beleaguer
1947|  Yu Zisan Incident
1948|  SS Kiangya incident
Liaoshen campaign
1948–1949|  Huaihai campaign
Pingjin campaign
1949|  Taiping Steamer Incident
Yangtze River Crossing campaign
Amethyst Incident
ROC Government retreat to Taiwan
PRC incorporation of Xinjiang
1949–1953|  Bombing of Shanghai
1950|  Hainan Island campaign
Wanshan Archipelago Campaign

1950–1958|  Kuomintang Islamic insurgency
1961–1972|  Project National Glory

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Cold War

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1940s|

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* Chinese Communist Revolution
* Malayan Emergency
* March 1949 Syrian coup d'état
* Operation Valuable

1950s|

* Bamboo curtain
* McCarthyism
* Korean War
* Arab Cold War (1952–1979)
* 1952 Egyptian revolution
* Iraqi Intifada (1952)
* Mau Mau rebellion
* East German uprising of 1953
* 1953 Iranian coup d'état
* Pact of Madrid
* Bricker Amendment
* 1954 Syrian coup d'état
* Petrov Affair
* Domino theory
* 1954 Geneva Conference
* 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état
* Capture of the Tuapse
* First Taiwan Strait Crisis
* Jebel Akhdar War
* Algerian War
* Kashmir Princess
* Bandung Conference
* Geneva Summit (1955)
* Vietnam War
* Cyprus Emergency
* "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences"
* 1956 Poznań protests
* Hungarian Revolution of 1956
* Polish October
* Suez Crisis
* "We will bury you"
* Operation Gladio
* Syrian Crisis of 1957
* Sputnik crisis
* Ifni War
* Iraqi 14 July Revolution
* 1958 Lebanon crisis
* Second Taiwan Strait Crisis
* 1959 Mosul uprising
* 1959 Tibetan uprising
* Laotian Civil War
* Kitchen Debate
* Cuban Revolution
* Consolidation of the Cuban Revolution
* Sino-Soviet split

1960s|

* Congo Crisis
* Simba rebellion
* 1960 U-2 incident
* Bay of Pigs Invasion
* 1960 Turkish coup d'état
* Albanian–Soviet split
* Expulsion of Soviets from Albania
* Iraqi–Kurdish conflict
* First Iraqi–Kurdish War
* Berlin Crisis of 1961
* Berlin Wall
* Annexation of Goa
* Papua conflict
* Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation
* Sand War
* Portuguese Colonial War
* Angolan War of Independence
* Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
* Mozambican War of Independence
* Cuban Missile Crisis
* El Porteñazo
* Sino-Indian War
* Communist insurgency in Sarawak
* Ramadan Revolution
* Eritrean War of Independence
* North Yemen civil war
* 1963 Syrian coup d'état
* Assassination of John F. Kennedy
* Aden Emergency
* Cyprus crisis of 1963–1964
* Shifta War
* Mexican Dirty War
* Tlatelolco massacre
* Guatemalan Civil War
* Colombian conflict
* 1964 Brazilian coup d'état
* Dominican Civil War
* Rhodesian Bush War
* Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966
* Transition to the New Order (Indonesia)
* ASEAN Declaration
* 1966 Syrian coup d'état
* Cultural Revolution
* Argentine Revolution
* South African Border War
* Korean DMZ Conflict
* 12-3 incident
* Greek junta
* 1967 Hong Kong riots
* Years of Lead (Italy)
* Six-Day War
* War of Attrition
* Dhofar War
* Al-Wadiah War
* Nigerian Civil War
* Protests of 1968
* May 68
* Prague Spring
* USS Pueblo incident
* 1968 Polish political crisis
* 1968–1971 East Pakistan communist insurgency
* Communist insurgency in Malaysia
* Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
* 17 July Revolution
* 1968 Peruvian coup d'état
* Revolutionary Government
* 1969 Sudanese coup d'état
* 1969 Libyan revolution
* Goulash Communism
* Sino-Soviet border conflict
* New People's Army rebellion

1970s|

* Détente
* Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
* Black September
* Alcora Exercise
* Corrective Movement (Syria)
* Western Sahara conflict
* Cambodian Civil War
* Communist insurgency in Thailand
* 1970 Polish protests
* Koza riot
* Realpolitik
* Ping-pong diplomacy
* 1971 JVP insurrection
* Corrective revolution (Egypt)
* 1971 Turkish military memorandum
* 1971 Sudanese coup d'état
* Four Power Agreement on Berlin
* Bangladesh Liberation War
* 1972 visit by Richard Nixon to China
* North Yemen-South Yemen Border conflict of 1972
* First Yemenite War
* Munich massacre
* 1972–1975 Bangladesh insurgency
* Eritrean Civil Wars
* 1973 Uruguayan coup d'état
* 1973 Afghan coup d'état
* 1973 Chilean coup d'état
* Yom Kippur War
* 1973 oil crisis
* Carnation Revolution
* Spanish transition to democracy
* Metapolitefsi
* Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
* Second Iraqi–Kurdish War
* Turkish invasion of Cyprus
* 15 August 1975 Bangladeshi coup d'état
* Siege of Dhaka (1975)
* Sipahi-Janata revolution
* Angolan Civil War
* Cambodian genocide
* June 1976 protests
* Mozambican Civil War
* Oromo conflict
* Ogaden War
* 1978 Somali coup attempt
* Western Sahara War
* Ethiopian Civil War
* Lebanese Civil War
* Sino-Albanian split
* Third Indochina War
* Cambodian–Vietnamese War
* Cambodian conflict
* Operation Condor
* Dirty War (Argentina)
* 1976 Argentine coup d'état
* Egyptian–Libyan War
* German Autumn
* Korean Air Lines Flight 902
* Nicaraguan Revolution
* Uganda–Tanzania War
* NDF Rebellion
* Chadian–Libyan War
* Second Yemenite War
* Grand Mosque seizure
* Iranian revolution
* Saur Revolution
* Sino-Vietnamese War
* New Jewel Movement
* 1979 Herat uprising
* Seven Days to the River Rhine
* Struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union

1980s|

* Salvadoran Civil War
* Soviet–Afghan War
* 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics boycotts
* Gera Demands
* Peruvian Revolution
* Gdańsk Agreement
* Solidarity
* Eritrean Civil Wars
* 1980 Turkish coup d'état
* Ugandan Bush War
* Gulf of Sidra incident
* Martial law in Poland
* Casamance conflict
* Falklands War
* 1982 Ethiopian–Somali Border War
* Ndogboyosoi War
* United States invasion of Grenada
* Able Archer 83
* Star Wars
* 1985 Geneva Summit
* Iran–Iraq War
* Somali Rebellion
* Reykjavík Summit
* 1986 Black Sea incident
* South Yemen civil war
* Toyota War
* 1987 Lieyu massacre
* Operation Denver
* 1987–1989 JVP insurrection
* Lord's Resistance Army insurgency
* 1988 Black Sea bumping incident
* 8888 Uprising
* Solidarity (Soviet reaction)
* Contras
* Central American crisis
* Operation RYAN
* Korean Air Lines Flight 007
* People Power Revolution
* Glasnost
* Perestroika
* Bougainville conflict
* First Nagorno-Karabakh War
* Afghan Civil War
* United States invasion of Panama
* 1988 Polish strikes
* Polish Round Table Agreement
* 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
* Revolutions of 1989
* Fall of the Berlin Wall
* Fall of the inner German border
* Velvet Revolution
* Romanian Revolution
* Peaceful Revolution

1990s|

* Mongolian Revolution of 1990
* Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident
* Gulf War
* Min Ping Yu No. 5202
* German reunification
* Yemeni unification
* Fall of communism in Albania
* Breakup of Yugoslavia
* Dissolution of the Soviet Union
* 1991 August Coup
* Dissolution of Czechoslovakia

Frozen conflicts|

* Abkhazia
* China-Taiwan
* Korea
* Kosovo
* South Ossetia
* Transnistria
* Sino-Indian border dispute
* North Borneo dispute

Foreign policy|

* Truman Doctrine
* Containment
* Eisenhower Doctrine
* Domino theory
* Hallstein Doctrine
* Kennedy Doctrine
* Peaceful coexistence
* Ostpolitik
* Johnson Doctrine
* Brezhnev Doctrine
* Nixon Doctrine
* Ulbricht Doctrine
* Carter Doctrine
* Reagan Doctrine
* Rollback
* Kinmen Agreement

Ideologies|

| Capitalism|

* Liberalism
* Chicago school
* Conservatism
* American conservatism
* Keynesianism
* Libertarianism
* Monetarism
* Neoclassical economics
* Reaganomics
* Supply-side economics
* Democratic capitalism

|

Socialism|

* Communism
* Marxism–Leninism
* Castroism
* Eurocommunism
* Guevarism
* Hoxhaism
* Juche
* Ho Chi Minh Thought
* Maoism
* Trotskyism
* Stalinism
* Titoism

Other|

* Imperialism
* Anti-imperialism
* Nationalism
* Ultranationalism
* Chauvinism
* Ethnic nationalism
* Racism
* Zionism
* Anti-Zionism
* Fascism
* Neo-Nazism
* Islamism
* Totalitarianism
* Authoritarianism
* Autocracy
* Liberal democracy
* Illiberal democracy
* Guided democracy
* Social democracy
* Third-worldism
* White supremacy
* White nationalism
* White separatism
* Apartheid

Organizations|

* NATO
* SEATO
* METO
* EEC
* Warsaw Pact
* Comecon
* Non-Aligned Movement
* NN States
* ASEAN
* SAARC
* Safari Club

Propaganda|

| Pro-communist|

* Active measures
* Izvestia
* Neues Deutschland
* Pravda
* Radio Moscow
* Rudé právo
* Trybuna Ludu
* TASS
* Soviet Life

|

Pro-Western|

* Amerika
* Crusade for Freedom
* Paix et Liberté
* Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

* Red Scare
* Voice of America

Technological
competition|

* Arms race
* Nuclear arms race
* Space Race

Historians|

* Gar Alperovitz
* Thomas A. Bailey
* Michael Beschloss
* Archie Brown
* Warren H. Carroll
* Adrian Cioroianu
* John Costello
* Michael Cox
* Nicholas J. Cull
* Norman Davies
* Willem Drees
* Robert D. English
* Herbert Feis
* Robert Hugh Ferrell
* André Fontaine
* Anneli Ute Gabanyi
* John Lewis Gaddis
* Lloyd Gardner
* Timothy Garton Ash
* Gabriel Gorodetsky
* Fred Halliday
* Jussi Hanhimäki
* John Earl Haynes
* Patrick J. Hearden
* Tvrtko Jakovina
* Tony Judt
* Harvey Klehr
* Gabriel Kolko
* Walter LaFeber
* Walter Laqueur
* Melvyn P. Leffler
* Geir Lundestad
* Vojtech Mastny
* Jack F. Matlock Jr.
* Thomas J. McCormick
* Timothy Naftali
* Marius Oprea
* David S. Painter
* William B. Pickett
* Ronald E. Powaski
* Yakov M. Rabkin
* M. E. Sarotte
* Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
* Ellen Schrecker
* Giles Scott-Smith
* Shen Zhihua
* Timothy Snyder
* Athan Theoharis
* Andrew Thorpe
* Vladimir Tismăneanu
* Patrick Vaughan
* Alex von Tunzelmann
* Odd Arne Westad
* William Appleman Williams
* Jonathan Reed Winkler
* Rudolph Winnacker
* Ken Young

Espionage and
intelligence|

* List of Eastern Bloc agents in the United States
* Soviet espionage in the United States
* Russian espionage in the United States
* American espionage in the Soviet Union and Russian Federation
* CIA and the Cultural Cold War
* CIA
* MI5
* MI6
* United States involvement in regime change
* Soviet involvement in regime change
* MVD
* KGB
* Stasi

See also|

* Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War
* Soviet Union–United States relations
* Soviet Union–United States summits
* Russia–NATO relations
* War on terror
* Brinkmanship
* Second Cold War
* Russian Revolution

* Category
* List of conflicts
* Timeline

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* FAST
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Australia
* Czech Republic
* Spain
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Greece
* Korea
* Poland
* Israel

Academics|

* CiNii

People|

* Trove

Other|

* IdRef
* NARA
* SNAC

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