Word: rajaratnam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South Korean Diplomat Hahm Pyong Choon, a former Ambassador to the U.S. and national security adviser to the late President Park Chung Hee, says, "The U.S. is sending the right signals for a change." Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and his Deputy Prime Minister Sinnathamby Rajaratnam are nothing short of ecstatic about the Reagan Administration. "For the first time since the Viet Nam War," says Rajaratnam, "the Americans are taking up the challenge...
...country-Japan, China or the U.S. alone-can check Soviet expansionism," says Tan Wenrui, deputy editor in chief of the Chinese party newspaper, the People's Daily. The Chinese want to see the emergence of a multilateral defense arrangement. Singapore's Rajaratnam agrees: "Since the U.S. cannot meet the threat on its own, what is needed in Asia is a collective defense system including the U.S., the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines), Australia, New Zealand and Canada, with South Korea and China as components. The Japanese, too, must contribute their share...