Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peking factory even altered its assembly line to produce Chinese lantern slides branding the U.S. as the "aggressor." And word filtered out that rail traffic between Peking, Shanghai and Canton had been disrupted-perhaps due to troop or supply movements to the Southeast Asian border...
...North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh might turn into the Tito of Asian Communism. This is possible, but only if Red China changes its nationalist-expansionist direction. Tito's Yugoslavia is separated by 200 miles of Carpathian wilderness from Russia, while North Viet Nam has a common frontier with China. Moreover, the Chinese have traditionally pushed south. Ho, whose basic training and sympathies derive from the Soviet Union, is now 75; most of his rising lieutenants are pro-Peking. A Viet Nam united under Communist rule would, for the foreseeable future, remain a Peking satellite...
...West Indians, with the remainder about equally divided among Indians, Pakistanis and Africans, and projections are for 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 by the turn of the century. Recently an anxious M.P. discussed in the Spectator the likelihood that "we should be come a chocolate-colored, Afro-Asian mixed society...
...groups involved claim that Congress has lost its voice in foreign affairs. They cite the resolution of last August 7 which gave the President unlimited authority in Southeast Asian policy, and the appropriation--without debate--of $700 million to extend the war in Vietnam as examples of Congressional apathy...
...countries in the past have been able to completely separate politics from economics, and it seems likely that Japan will be forced to choose between two alternative roles in the Asian balance of power. First, Japan might translate her industrial power into political domination. She could conceivable act as a counterweight to Red China in Southeast Asia, leading the nations who fear exploitation by the communists as much as they do "neo-colonialism" from the West. Or, second, as increased trade leads to pressure for recognition and support, Japan might cooperate with Red China...