Word: asianized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophie A. Volpp '85, a resident tutor in East Asian Languages and civilizations, resigned to protest the letter, saying she left "shocked," "angry" and "threatened...
Unfortunately, in his analysis Fallows seems frozen in that remarkable period of the late 1980s when, as he writes, "you could almost feel minute by minute that the world's balance of power was shifting." Fallows argues that Japan's success, and that of its East Asian neighbors (Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore), is based not on American-style laissez-faire economics but on interventionist policies designed to benefit producers and the state rather than consumers. Further, Fallows argues, those internal economic policies are dangerous to other nations because Japan has rewritten the Clausewitz maxim that...
...granting China MFN status, the U.S. is planning a low-key, go-slow approach to closer ties with VIETNAM. The new U.S. liaison office in Hanoi will quietly help firms seeking business but will not organize showy trade missions or trumpet Vietnam's economy as the next big Asian opportunity...
Among their demands was the establishment of a permanent ethnic studies faculty position in at least three fields--Asian-American Studies, American Latino Studies and Native American Studies increased recruitment of minority faculty; and the establishment of a multicultural student center where minority organizations can have permanent office space...
...months later, German and Saudi officials detained a German-registered ship, the Asian Senator, as it steamed past a Saudi port en route to Beirut. On board, they seized two containers of Chinese-produced ammonium perchlorate, an essential ingredient for solid-fuel rockets and ballistic missiles. Though the ostensible destination was Lebanon, U.N. monitors and U.S. officials confirmed that the real end user was Iraq's long-range missile program...