Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when speaking in general on American policy in Asia, I sometimes feel it strange that despite these fine scholars and experts in America--such as at Harvard--and a most up-to-date assortment of materials from Asia, Americans suffer from many mis-judgments in their Asian policy. Is the reason a lack of intercourse between scholars and the administration? Or is it a general lack of understanding about Asian problems among the American people? Probably this is a partial explanation. Or is it that America has some sort of limit in the understanding of Asia? I think...
When the United States emerged from World War II as a victor, it began its role as a big power deeply involved in Asian politics. Communist China also appeared, claiming to be a new power center of international politics in Asia. Since the U.S. has kept its concern in this area keen--in terms of seeking better deployment for its national interest, the two powers went very rapidly into rivalry. As is obvious, mutual distrust has ensued...
This is why tension and conflict remain, and have, in fact, increased, in the Asian arena of international politics while the danger in the Western arena has decreased. In Europe the antagonism between the two confronting powers, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., climaxed in a series of Berlin crises and in the Cuban crisis. But from the brink of nuclear war, the two powers have turned to peaceful coexistence--so much so that the once-allied European nations seem now to have lost any interest in NATO, the establishment of the cold...
...WOULD like to compare the Western experience in Europe to the Asian situation today. It is undeniable that the Vietnam war is, in a broad sense, a product of Sino-American collision in Asia. And the two powers behind the present conflict will sooner or later come to realize that they cannot win a complete victory by mere force. The U.S. seems to be aware that it cannot defeat Communist China, the great power reserve behind the Ho regime, without precipitating all-out nuclear war. And China, even before it fell into the present state of confusion, seemed to know...
Some Westerners seem inclined to believe that communism with its platform of land reform and intensive mobilization of manpower for industrialization is the most effective approach to economic growth for underdeveloped countries. But I must call their attention to the fact that most of the Asian people are aspiring to political freedom as well as seeking economic development. They are striving to modernize their traditional societies on their own terms. They have become wary of the costly and unhappy results that some Asian countries have had to suffer from the rigorous but ineffective execution of economic programs under the strict...