Word: asian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the point of view of the Asians, a withdrawal of American troops under the right circumstances would be even more welcome. Because of their comparative affluence and their massive backup needs, U.S. forces inevitably distort and disrupt local economies. Necessary as the U.S. military presence is in Asia now, few Asian leaders are very happy about it-or want it to continue indefinitely in the future. Their sentiments spring from pride and from fears that massive American garrisons will destroy traditional cultural values and unduly shape local political decisions. "There is a feeling among Asians," says Edwin Reischauer, former...
...Malaysia and now openly praises America's role in Viet Nam. Faced by the xenophobic madness of the Red Guards, whose actions sent a cold shiver running through Asia, Japan is beginning to contemplate a future in which Tokyo rather than Peking may emerge as the most important Asian capital. Even Prince Sihanouk's Cambodia, which not so very long ago was trailing along after Peking, is now eyeing a safer seat on the fence. And it may not be too much to say that Red China's setbacks helped to encourage North Korea to proclaim...
There are limits, in any case, to just what the U.S. can do in Asia. It cannot-and, in fact, does not want to-exert control over the political and social life of Asian nations. Despite the fact that both India and Pakistan largely depend on American aid for their viability, for example, Washington failed in its efforts to end last year's Indo-Pakistani war. But in the national life-or-death issue of survival in the face of Communist subversion in Asia, only the U.S. is powerful enough to check the Chinese export and exploitation of revolutions...
Despite their understandable desire to see U.S. troops leave once they have done their job, Asians may need some time to get accustomed to an American presence and protection based on mobility from afar-and hence largely invisible. Some Pentagon planners foresee a transition period in Asia that will be marked by a sort of Yo-Yo strategy. In times of tension, there could be U.S. maneuvers and training exercises that would dispatch men and planes to friendly Southeast Asian fields, pull the patrolling Seventh Fleet into allied ports. Then, as the tension subsided, the G.I.s would be pulled back...
Once it has healed the wounds of Viet Nam, the U.S. hopes for an Asian future that will be more and more mastered by Asians themselves. In Viet Nam, it has bought time for independent Asians to get on with the business of nation building; over the next decade, it will pour out at least $1 billion a year to provide economic thrust, including funds for a vast Mekong Delta project. Its goal is a community of nonCommunist, though not necessarily aggressively antiCommunist, Asian nations that will act as a balance to Red China and create a pattern of practical...