Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twenty years after her defeat in World War II, Japan is re-emerging as a decisive factor in the Asian balance of power. She has grown since the end of American occupation in 1952 from a destitute and demoralized suzerainty to a robust economic giant. Now ranking fourth in the world (after the U.S., the U.S.S.R. and West Germany) in industrial production, her economy expands 8% yearly, the fastest sustained growth in modern histroy. Riding the wave of this economic power, she has led efforts in recent months to mediate the dispute between Indonesia and Malaysia; and it is possible...
...Japan reclaims the political influence that she forfeited after the war, her Asian foreign policy will be conditioned by her unique economic position. Japan has built a huge industrial complex, but she lacks fuel and raw materials for her machines and food for her people. Slightly smaller than California in terms of land, Japan has over half as big a population as the entire United States. Trade is Japan's lifeline to prosperity and Asia is her most important market...
...Administration seems to be working with only one historic model of aggression, namely, that which would make it the Viet Cong today's counterpart of Hitler's Sudeten Germans, about to deliver up a stalwartly democratic Asian Czechoslovakia! Stubborn and unimaginative anti-Chamberlain-ship is perhaps as anachronistic and inept in the face of nationalist-Communist guerilla warfare as was the Braddock-Cornwallis military complex in coping with revolutionary American backwoods patriots supplied by France. American policy should reflect our full awareness of the anti-colonial, nationalist fervor that pervades great parts of Asian and Africa." (emphesis added...
...Vietnamese war. Therefore the Vietnamese government feels it has a right to some voice in the reporting of the war, and that sometimes makes things tough for the USIS. Not only is there the problem of two conflicting governmental views; there is also a marked difference between American and Asian concepts of freedom of information...
...Harvard Faculty Forum on Foreign Policy will meet tonight to hear Mark Mancall, instructor in History and research fellow in East Asian Studies, speak on "America and revolutionary social change: the case of Vietnam and some generalizations...