1. Guo Taiqi was a diplomat during the Republic of China and an active member of the Kuomintang from the early years of the Republic of China until shortly after the Chinese Communist Revolution on mainland China.
12 Facts About Guo Taiqi
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At a time when the victors of the Great War were negotiating the spoils of war and punishment of the conquered, Guo Taiqi controversially stated it would be better for the Germans to retain their concessions in Shandong than to allow the aggressive, militarist Japanese to take possession of them.
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The Chinese delegation's wishes were largely ignored by the European powers, and Guo Taiqi's words proved prophetic as over the next three decades, Japan's appetite for conquest proved genocidal.
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Guo Taiqi published a book in English, entitled China's Fight for Democracy, in 1920, at a time when the Kuomintang was actively struggling against several regional warlords to reunify China as a democratic republic.
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Guo Taiqi held a variety of posts, including commissioner of foreign affairs of the "Canton government" in 1927 and Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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Guo Taiqi signed the armistice from the hospital, but resigned his post that year.
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Guo Taiqi worked tirelessly to make China's case against Japan's continued, aggressive expansion in northern China at a time when the British were far more concerned with fascist acts of war on the Continent.
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Guo Taiqi lobbied for an end to British arms sales to the Japanese, whose airplanes, armed with British guns, were killing countless civilians in China even before war was declared.
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Guo Taiqi represented China at the newly formed United Nations in San Francisco in 1946.
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In December 1947, Guo Taiqi was appointed Chinese ambassador to Brazil, replacing Cheng Tien-ku.
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Guo Taiqi could remain the seat of China in the UN despite the communists' dominance in Mainland China and the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
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Guo Taiqi died on February 29,1952, in Santa Barbara, California.