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Professor Edwin O. Reischauer, Jerome A. Cohen and Lucien W. Pye will discuss "Is China Unique?" at 8 p.m. tonight in the First Parish Church (Unitarian), 3 Church...
...Thorn Electrical Industries, Britain's largest maker of radio and television sets, outbid Dutch interests by offering $74.8 million for ailing Pye of Cambridge, sixth-ranking TV-set producer, which lost $25 million last year. Austrian-born Sir Jules Thorn, 62, built Thorn up from a mite to a mammoth (fiscal 1966 sales: $238 million) by breaking a light-bulb monopoly in the '30s. Later, he expanded by absorbing such competitors as Marconi, British Philco, and Ultra Radio and Television. Through Pye, Thorn hopes to move into telecommunications, now dominated in Britain by the likes of Plessey...
What will be the problems facing the U.S. with regards to China? There are two basic factions which determine our policy toward China, and they are not on speaking terms, Pye said. There is the clique of economic and political developers who don't really like to admit that they are an integral part of the cold war effort. Then there are the Sinocentric experts who feel that you have to deal directly with Peking, "and that the surrounding countries are merely pygmies...
There are new forces emerging in the Far East, Pye continued, and we must learn a new and flexible, marginal role in the power struggle. Japan and India will certainly turn from their internal revolutions to external leadership, and there is reason to believe that this groping for a framework of power distribution will not be entirely tranquil, Pye said...
China's entry into the U.N. poses some difficult questions, Pye admitted. While both the United States and Russia disagree within the framework of the U.N., China might prove a more revolutionary member and try to radically change the power structure, he said...