UN General Assembly
1958

67. The statement on the United States programmes in the Far East summed up the results attained by the foreign policy of the State Department in that area over the past ten years, and outlined its prospects. Its main result and most essential prospect was summarized in this surprising sentence: "The Republic of China remains a firm and effective ally and a standing challenge to the attempts of Communist China to fasten permanently its rule on the Chinese people." Though the statement made known the relations of the United States with all Far Eastern countries, yet it referred only to Chiang Kai-shek as a "firm and effective ally", and it did so at a time when large units of Chiang Kai-shek's armed forces were moving to the immediate vicinity of mainland China, to the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu.