Word: asia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even about Vietnam. It was a protracted battle of the cold war, fought to block the extension of communist power in Asia. The U.S. commitment to South Vietnam was sealed in 1954 when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles went to Geneva for the nine-delegation conference on Indochina. He was determined to keep the French from turning their holdings over to Ho Chi Minh. After the conference decided to partition Vietnam for two years pending elections, the U.S. and South Vietnam went to work to make the partition permanent...
...were wrong, terribly wrong," he means mostly that he and his colleagues misjudged the nature of the cold war and the role Vietnam played in it. In a 1991 interview with Time, McNamara recalled, "We thought there was considerable evidence China intended to extend its hegemony across Southeast Asia and perhaps beyond." But he added, "I'm not at all sure now." While many Americans agree with him that the domino theory was probably founded on an illusion, not everyone is convinced. Rusk was not, and neither is Walt Rostow, who was special assistant to L.B.J. "This...
Through Oct. 8. "The Art of the Fan: China, Korea, Japan." Traces the evolution of the fan in East Asia, from the circular "lollipop" fan to the better-known folding fan that was produced throughout East Asia from the thirteenth century onward...
...with the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled political and spiritual leader. China's current policy of flooding Tibet with Han Chinese and Hui muslim immigrants heightens tensions and the potential for violence there. For the past 25 years the Tibetan independence movement has been exclusively non-violent, and for Asia's sake, it should stay...
First Lady in South Asia...