Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Asia, Mao Tse-tung's Red Guards have destroyed the image of Red China as a seductive model for emerging countries and largely reduced the credibility of China as a military threat before whom her neighbors must cringe. In fact, while China has been thrashing in economic disorder, her neighbors have by and large prospered and plucked up their courage, partly-as Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew admitted publicly last week and other neutralist nations cautiously indicate in private-because of the U.S.'s determined stand in South Viet...
...some of these countries, the U.S. can take credit for advice and aid. Japan, converted to democracy and free enterprise by the most remarkable military occupation in history, has built an economy that has far outpaced any other in Asia, and is now dispensing foreign aid itself. Despite perennial corruption, the Philippines has established itself as a vigorous and functioning democracy, sufficiently secure to be increasingly assertive in its relations with the U.S., and to become a leader in organizing such inter-Asian regional enterprises as the Asian and Pacific Council (ASPAC) and the Asian Development Bank. Taiwan, once cited...
...fragment into its original pieces, but at least it has been relieved of the huge burden imposed by Indonesia's harassing little war. Prosperous Australia and New Zealand, though far to the south, now firmly consider themselves-and are accepted by Asians-as a part of Asia, and take a major hand in Asian councils. A U.S. observer summarizes: "The Asians are not thrashing around as much as they were even a year ago. Now, even if they're wobbly, they are essentially on their feet...
Thant, reiterating his fears of a wider war in Asia, invoked Hanoi's wrath by suggesting an eminently fairminded, three-step formula for ending the war: 1) "a general standstill truce," to be followed in a few weeks by 2) "preliminary talks" between Washington and Hanoi, possibly refereed by Moscow and London as co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva conference that partitioned Indo-China, and 3) reconvening of the Geneva Conference...
Welcome Windfall. The outcome of the new exchange was to reinforce in many parts of the world a growing feeling that Hanoi, probably elbowed by Peking, remains the real obstacle to peace. In Asia, Scandinavia and France, newspapers that had previously regarded Johnson's motives with undisguised skepticism were beginning to change their views. Cambodia's Chief of State Prince Norodom Sihanouk, who three years ago had fervently welcomed China's embrace while reviling U.S. "imperialism," recently reassured Australian diplomats that he welcomes the U.S. presence in Southeast Asia as a counterweight to Peking. Other Asian leaders...