Word: asia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuation of war in Southeast Asia is a disheartening threat to world peace. Apparently the governments of China, Vietnam and Cambodia believe that aggression is necessary to maintain their power and prestige. The losers, as always, are the people of those countries...
DeNiro appeared on stage briefly before the opening curtain rose on the Pudding's 131st production, "Overtures in Asia Minor...
...bask in its unaccustomed role as an uninvolved bystander, the complete inability of the U.S. government to pursue its own foreign policy goals or exercise any mediating influence in this crisis reveals a basic weakness in the way that the United States has developed and pursued foreign policy throughout Asia and in much of the world...
...recent double invasions--Vietnam into Cambodia and China into Vietnam--have demonstrated conclusively that the United States has no leverage in Southeast Asia...
...sacrificing Taiwan in its support for soulless Communism. George Will in the Washington Post claimed the "Taiwan question is: How shall Taiwan's liberty be extinguished?" For both supporters and opponents of the new ties with China, the relationship represents a fundamental shift in United States goals in Asia. The conservatives believe the recognition of the People's Republic signals the end of U.S. attempts to contain Communism, while supporters of the move have been able to see no further than the act of recognition itself. The recent outbreak of war in Southeast Asia demonstrates the narrowness of that perspective...