Word: kuan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...events elsewhere. Park urged his nation to be more self-reliant. Said he: "Where adequate and independent means of self-defense are lacking, all agreements for collective security guarantee could prove only meaningless." But in Malaysia, government officials seemed unworried about future security, and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew insisted calmly: "I don't believe in the domino theory." Philippine leaders felt confident that the U.S. would intervene with naval forces in the unlikely event that Communists ever invaded across the South China...
...that no secret deals had been made with the Russians and that improving relations with China remained, as Kissinger put it in his farewell toast, "a fixed principle of American foreign policy." The Chinese response was friendly, showing no signs of either suspicion or alarm. Said Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua: "The current international situation is characterized by great disorder under heaven. Mankind always moves forward amidst turmoil...
...Communist Southeast Asia, men like Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew, the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos and Indonesia's Suharto developed their talents during or soon after their countries achieved independence. All received a heavy dose of Western culture, and their concepts of national leadership were molded in the pattern of the imperial traditions by which they had been ruled. They were indoctrinated in character patterns thought necessary in the West to achieve supreme power in industrialized political democracies, although the traits, such as charisma or coolness under fire, have often degenerated into parody. Such leaders are less concerned with providing...
...grace are even greater. He likes to hear gossip about himself, he is complex, difficult and the best show in town." One element of the Kissinger act is to deflate formality. On President Nixon's trip to China, Kissinger brought on board the plane Vice Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua. In the press section, Kissinger told his guest: "That's Jerry Schecter of TIME. He's my favorite fiction writer...
...Soviet countermove was sur prisingly mild, which suggests that the five may actually have been involved in espionage. Last week security agents arrested an obscure Chinese attache, Kuan Heng-kuang, aboard the Chinese-operated Moscow-Peking express at the Si berian city of Irkutsk. The Soviets claimed that the attache had been at tempting "to obtain espionage information of military nature from a Soviet woman." He was promptly ordered out of Russia. Since the diplomat was heading home anyway, the expulsion amounted to no more than a diplomatic gesture...