Word: asia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing to the hilt his role as top banana on the world diplomatic circuit, Nikita Khrushchev last week took his road show to Asia...
Clearest symptom of the chaos was the sudden and steep decline in China's exports. In 1958 Peking had begun to invade the markets of Southeast Asia with a flood of inexpensive bicycles, textiles, rice. By underselling Japan, Red China increased its exports to Singapore and Malaya by 23%, nearly doubled its trade with Thailand and Ceylon. But by this spring Red China was unable to fill even longstanding orders. At the annual trade fair in Canton last May, export sales were down 56% from the previous year...
...though this clumsy troublemaking helped out at home, it was disastrous abroad. In its ten-year existence, Red China had acted aggressively from Korea to Kashmir (see map), and always, in their deep suspicion of "white imperialism," the newly independent neutrals of Southeast Asia had made excuses for Peking. But with the savage repression of the Tibetan revolt, and deliberate provocation of India, Southeast Asians were taking seriously the threat of "yellow imperialism." Burma, which had formerly refused U.S. aid, now recoiled at the thought of loans from Peking. Thailand's Marshal Sarit had placed an embargo on imports...
Albion last night began the initial course, "European Imperialism," with general comments on the migration and settlement of European peoples in the various climate regions of Africa, Asia, and the Americas...
...caused by viruses transmitted to men and farm animals from infected birds by insect vectors (i.e., carriers), usually mosquitoes or ticks. The viruses have been divided into distinct families labeled "A" and "B"; they crop up around the world in a variety of guises, e.g., Japanese "B" in eastern Asia; Murray Valley Fever in Australia; Mayaro and Ilheus in South and Central America; dengue in India and the West Indies; Chikungunya in Africa; Omsk hemorrhagic fever in Russia. Only a few of the forms circulate widely, even fewer represent great danger to human life. The virulent Japanese "B" variety...