Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plan were adopted, Harvard would be "abandoning even our current, very modest level of screening," said Phillip A. Kuhn, who is Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations...
...1940s some U.S. officials suspected that Ho Chi Minh was not just another Soviet stooge but a Vietnamese nationalist suspicious of his huge Chinese neighbor--an "Asian Tito." Had the pro-Ho factions in the CIA and State Department persuaded Eisenhower to compel South Vietnam to hold a reunification referendum in 1956--despite rampant McCarthyism in the U.S.--Ho would surely have won. While Ike would have taken some political heat, a newly reunited Vietnam backed by American power would have quickly asserted its independence from Beijing. With no war to fight in Southeast Asia, Lyndon Johnson would have concentrated...
...collapse--led to the death of several dozen people. Their names are known, their photographs were published in the press, and one feels terribly sorry for them and their families. Yeltsin's carnage in Chechnya, the bloody events in Tadjikistan, the establishment of feudal orders in the central Asian republics and the massive eradication of all human rights throughout the territory of the former Soviet Union are, however, regarded indifferently, as if they were in the order of things, as if they were not a direct consequence of the current regime's irresponsible policies...
That's the sound of a frontier being breached. The globalization of business and finance has clobbered several Asian economies in the past year, but you hear few people proposing to build up the barriers again. On the contrary: the world of business is now for the worldly like Yan, even those operating in China. "China has done so much damage to itself for 200 years," Yan mourns, "by not realizing the world is larger than it." That's a lesson he learned early--Yan first left China at the age of 17 with a borrowed $26 in his pocket...
Western colonialism dominated Africa and the Asian islands. The Russian, Ottoman, German, Austro-Hungarian and Chinese empires had passed their peaks...