Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just Japan that has a lot at stake. Still-limping tigers like Korea, Thailand, Indonesia and Singapore need healthy Japanese banks to lend their businesses money, and free-spending Japanese consumers to buy their exports. Japan, in its current state, has neither. The once-emulated economic juggernaut has been reduced to the humiliating status of an export-dumping nation, irking the U.S. profoundly in the process and affording no help whatsoever to its shell-shocked Asian neighbors...
...they were calling us all kinds of names," he adds. "'Baby killers.' 'Get out of Vietnam.' 'Not our war.' 'Too many Americans dying over there.' I said I was in Korea. If they'd sent me to Vietnam...
...loose cannon and for all that, the spokesman for a valid American intuition (fear, if you like). In an atmosphere compounded of the Soviet enslavement of Eastern Europe, the Hiss conviction, the detonation of the first Soviet nuclear bomb, the communist takeover of China and the invasion of South Korea, something was wrong in the world. The opening of Soviet archives after the collapse of the U.S.S.R., together with the Venona decryptions, which the National Security Agency began releasing in 1995, has made it clear that the fear of Soviet espionage was neither neurotic nor hallucinatory...
...look and not act muscular, but that hasn't stopped others from wondering under what scenarios Beijing would actually use its muscles. It's a question the Chinese themselves are struggling to answer. To begin with, China is surrounded by several other regional powers: Russia, Japan, South Korea and India. And it has special security worries with each nation. Russia's internal chaos could spill into China's already uneasy Western provinces. An India-Pakistan war--something that didn't look too farfetched as the two nations shelled each other last week--would take place right along China's southwestern...
Also named as fellows were Ragip Duran from Turkey; Aytul Gurtas, also from Turkey; Andreas Harsono from Indonesia; Tatsuya Inose from Japan; Rakesh Kalshian from India; and Lee Kwangchool from South Korea...