Word: multipolar
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...become entangled in the alliance that they believe Moscow is trying to foster between the Soviet Union, Japan and India. Taiwan could indeed reflect well on the advice given last week by Singapore's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Rahim Ishak. He warned that, in the new multipolar world, the smaller nations should be more wary than ever of being "caught in the cold embrace of the giants...
...foreign policy-and it was fitting that Richard Nixon should help end that era as dramatically as he once helped start it. The trip also marked the beginning of a more pragmatic and complex, less concentrated and crusading application of American power. It officially inaugurated the already much advertised multipolar world of five power centers, with Peking more or less officially proclaimed No. 5 -though in the communiqué China disavowed superpower status. The components of this pentagram are far from equal. How the President's voyage will really affect the relationships within that new field of force...
...find the world most troubling. Laments Shinkichi Eto, respected Tokyo University professor of political science: "Japanese leadership has no grand political vision, no long-range plan of national aims." That seemed not to matter very much through the long years of bipolar, East-West confrontation. "But now that the multipolar world is emerging," Eto adds, "the Japanese suddenly have no idea what they should...