Australian senator calls for end to One China policy Senator Rex Patrick [Source: Australian Parliament] Following the 1949 Chinese revolution, Chiang Kai-shek, his nationalist Kuomintang (KMT) and defeated armies fled to Taiwan where they established a military dictatorship protected by the US Navy. This abruptly changed after Nixon’s visit to China in 1972 where he met with Mao Zedong and concluded a de-facto anti-Soviet alliance. The US and other countries established diplomatic relations on the basis that they recognised Beijing as the legitimate government of all China including Taiwan. The US ended its formal ties with Taipei. A half century later, the Biden administration, following on from Obama and Trump, is escalating a dangerous confrontation with China on all fronts—including in the South and East China Seas and allegations of China’s human rights abuses, particularly of Muslim Uyghurs.