Word: expansionist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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RADICALS HAVE traditionally, and accurately, pointed to the economic dynamics of American and world capitalism as being the prime movers behind an expansionist foreign policy. But to say that a nation dominated by GM and ITT exists in an atmosphere where those in power believe the international expansion of American business to be consonant with the wellbeing of all Americans is very different from claiming that the presidents of those corporate giants have an active role in deciding America's day-to-day foreign policy. We face in the realm of foreign policy--especially in the Southeast Asian nightmare...
...pretax profits, or about half of the official 48% tax rate on U.S. corporate incomes. Like individual taxpayers, corporations can effectively reduce the official rate by using certain benefits on their tax bill; these include capital gains, which are taxed at a preferential rate, and investment credits, which an expansionist firm like ITT would be certain to use to the fullest...
...Indian meant to them, to America as a nation, and in time, to the land itself. As a result of this political and moral breakdown, year by year, tribe by tribe, lie by lie, the destiny of "this great experiment in democratic government under the Anglo-Saxon race," as expansionist pamphleteers called it, was made manifest by men who killed for Gold and God and proclaimed, "The destiny of the aborigines is written in characters not to be mistaken. The same inscrutable Arbiter that decreed the downfall of Rome has pronounced the doom of extinction upon...
...significant than their squabbles. They anticipated by years the Government's change of heart-and encouraged it at least indirectly. Through articles, speeches and personal contacts, they have helped alter the official view of a decade ago, which saw Chinese communism as ruthlessly totalitarian at home and implacably expansionist abroad. According to Morton Halperin at the Brookings Institution, the scholars who have consulted with the Government's China watchers have become nearly unanimous in depicting China as a relatively defensive, inward-looking, less-than-bellicose land. Says Halperin: "There was an enormous change from the time McNamara...
...Delhi, where one Indian critic relegated it to "the dunghill of propaganda," Maxwell's assessment is widely accepted. To Harvard Sinologist John K. Fairbank, the episode is "an object lesson in international astigmatism." At the very least, it questions the assumption that Peking is fundamentally reckless, belligerent and expansionist-the axiom that was used to justify the "containment" policy pursued by the U.S. in Asia for 20 years. In fact, serious China watchers have long regarded Peking as extremely cautious in its foreign policy decisions...