{"value"=>"<p>Includes material mostly about the NYT's editorial stand on the United States' policies towards Communist China and Nationalist China (Taiwan), news coverage of China, and relations with Chinese officials and news organizations and journalists. The principal contents may be summarized as follows: controversy between John Oakes, Orvil Dryfoos, and others over a series of editorials on seating China in the United Nations (1961), the issue of sending reporters to mainland China in view of the State Department's ban, including correspondence between AHS and John Foster Dulles on this topic, which was published in the NYT, the decoration presented to AHS by Chiang Kai-shek (1956-1957), the Sun Li-jen affair (1955), Foster Hailey's speech urging recognition of Communist China (1954), the problems in reporting the news from China, the issue of the United States' policy on defending Formosa and the off-shore islands against the Communists, including Douglas MacArthur's reply to AHS's question about the policy, Henry Lieberman's reports on conditions in China and his three internments there (1946-1953), Hallett Abend's letters on conditions in China, and letters and memoranda about the quality of Abend's reports (1928-1936).</p>"}