Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manchester Guardian pronounced: "The Russians and the Americans no longer have any reason to quarrel." And there is a widespread school of chop logic that maintains simultaneously: 1) Russia can no longer be seriously regarded as a threat to the West, and 2) by its firm stand in Southeast Asia, the U.S. is inviting Russian retaliation. Both premises are debatable at best; together, they are not an argument but a plea for passivity. The danger of such wishful thinking, as the State Department's Walt Rostow has warned, is that "out of a false sense that the cold...
...Asia: Magic Hammer...
...odds, the threat is most serious in Asia, where Communism-predominantly Chinese Communism-exploits the vast turmoil of social disorder and political-economic discontent. Peking has chosen as its chief weapon "the war of national liberation," an export version of the Chinese Communist revolution, which is based on the theory that through interminable guerrilla war a weaker force can wear out and finally overcome a stronger one. The Chinese work through nominally independent "nationalist" organizations such as the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front. It makes no difference to Peking if such fronts contain many nonCommunists; as in North Viet...
...rope and magic knife" with which he can kill all enemies, even if they number "as many as the sesame seeds in three baskets." Peking's most formidable source of subversion is the 15 million "overseas" Chinese, who dominate much of the trade and commerce of non-Communist Asia. In Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, the Philippines and Burma, their hsiao-tzu (literally, "little groups"), of three to 22 members, perform subversive chores wherever possible...
Everywhere, Red China cynically exploits racism to the detriment not only of the Western powers, but also of the Russians, who are increasingly on the defensive in Asia. But racial feeling also works against China, for many Asians have a centuries-old fear of the Chinese and it is at least as strong as their anti-white prejudice. The greatest threat Peking holds over its Asian neighbors is its army-2,500,000 infantrymen, a 12-million-man militia-which could inundate the continent if all its subversive stratagems should fail. That is why Viet Nam is the ultimate test...