Word: asia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like his earlier trip abroad, the newest expedition will be primarily a fact-finding effort. The chief concern, of course, will be Viet Nam (which he is not scheduled to visit) and the shape of post-war Asia. The President, said a White House official, "wants to begin to lay the foundation for a post-Viet Nam South Asia policy. He has had a long-standing concern for the region and is convinced that the U.S. must remain a Pacific power. In the long term, the concern is for a lasting Asian peace in which we are not dragged into...
...President moved across the globe toward Asia to grapple directly with South Viet Nam. Nixon flew to Midway Island for his first meeting as President with Nguyen Van Thieu, the South Vietnamese chief of state...
...Washington has little choice but to say sayonara, Okinawa. If the U.S. were to cling to the island, it might produce an anti-American regime in Tokyo and destroy the Security Treaty with Japan. That would represent a far greater loss than Okinawa for the long-term security of Asia...
Except in Southeast Asia and parts of Latin America and West Germany, public fear of Communism has noticeably declined. The change in the public climate offers an opportunity to the reformist parties. If they actually do achieve power through elections, the test for the reformists will be to show that Communism can indeed be the liberating, uplifting force that Marx envisioned and not the tyranny that the Soviets and Chinese made it. To judge from all past evidence, it would be dangerous and foolhardy for any Western voter to bet his liberty in the expectation that this will ever happen...
...wildly revolutionary in word if not in deed. It is also highly emotional. A modern echo of classic Chinese opera, Maoism whines in shrill hyperbole. Rigidly doctrinaire, Chinese Communism retains the traditional belief that a clash with capitalism is inevitable; it calls for wars of national liberation throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Mao, who immodestly considers himself a Communist innovator on a par with Marx and Lenin, sees the development of world revolution as a repetition of the strategy used by the Chinese Communists to achieve power in 1949. At that time, mass peasant armies surrounded the cities where...