Twenty-two years after its expulsion from the United Nations, the Republic of China (a/k/a Nationalist China, a/k/a Taiwan) was seeking re-entry. This discussion is often cautious--since Mr. Hu is officially representing his government, and Dr. Kissinger, although currently without portfolio, carries a great deal of diplomatic baggage. But we get fascinating shifts in perspective, as we see the issue first through the eyes of a man whose country has been relegated to "second-class" status, and then through those of a man who sees Taiwan/Mainland China as only one part of a picture that includes "problems with Japan,... unsettled conditions in Russia and other parts of Asia." As WFB puts it, "It doesn't have the stuff of causes militant, does it? This is to say, people aren't going to say: 'Well, there was the civil rights in the South, there was getting out of Vietnam, now there's getting Taiwan into the United Nations.' It's not a mobilizing pressure."