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...Fairbank, who was convinced that the order to commit Chinese troops to the Korean conflict came from the central government, disagreed with the suggestion of his colleague, Edwin O. Reischauer, professor of Far Eastern Languages, that the instructions to the Chinese in Korea are not coming from...
...Apparently the Chinese Communists have completely swallowed the Russian lie that the United States is the aggressor in the Korean War," Fairbank explained, "and they fear our presence near their frontier...
They are particularly concerned about our approach to the Manchurian border, Fairbank went on, because Manchuria contains China's greatest concentration of raw materials and industrial potential...
...Fairbank thought the Chinese are probably anxious to protect the dams on the Yalu River in Korea which provide Manchuria with hydro-electric power. Reischauer, on the other haud, felt that "the dams aren't so terribly valuable to them so that they would risk a major war over them...
...Fairbank thought that the Chinese invasion of Tibet was also a calculated act of the Chinese central government. He admitted that he was puzzled by the Tibetan campaign because it is clearly jeopardizing their relations with India...