Premier of Taiwan Chiang Ching-kuo.
Chiang Ching-kuo is the Premier of Taiwan. It is difficult to say to what extent Chiang is master of his own house, and to what extent he is a puppet of Kramer Associates President Carl Salazar. Sobel states that Chiang's relationship to Salazar is similar to that between Bernard Kramer and the Presidents of the U.S.M. in the mid-nineteenth century.
As Sobel describes it, K.A. money, manpower, and brainpower are put at the disposal of the Taiwanese government and used "most effectively." Chiang and Salazar are said by Sobel to be "fast friends and golfing companions," with each respecting the other's sphere of operations and neither speaking of K.A.'s "special situation" in Taiwan.