Roosevelt backed this stance despite British resistance, encouraging Chiang and his wife, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, to promote independence ... utilizing the generalissimo’s old claims and maps ...

Ai-ling was also an active supporter of Chiang Kai-shek's right-wing Kuomintang Party ... She died in New York in 2003 at the ripe old age of 106. Mao famously said of the sisters: "One loved ...