John Foster Dulles: Address on U.S. Policy toward Communist China

Glossary

• diplomatic recognition formal, established interactions between nations based on their mutual agreement that each has the legal right to exist in its present form
• Huk the Hukbalahap, the military wing of the Philippine Communist Party, which waged war against its nation’s pro-Western government from 1946 to 1954
• Indochina the area of Southeast Asia under French control from the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth, when Communist revolutions established the nations of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos
• insurrection in Malaya the difficult transition (1946–1966) from British colonialism to independence experienced by the Southeast Asian nation now known as Malaysia, a period that included the uprising to which Dulles alludes
• Mao Tse-tung Mao Zedong (1893–1976), Chinese Communist leader from the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949 to his death