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...article released today in Look Magazine, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and former ambassador to Japan, said that the United States should change its Asian role from leader to "outside friend...
Advising a long term view, Reischauer warned the United States against becoming identified with any particular Asian political regime. In his view, the Vietnamese war is the result of shortsighted decisions made since 1945 in the absence of a concrete Asian policy...
...Reischauer stated that the United States has ignored the fact that nationalism stands as the chief barrier to a Communist takeover of Asia. He argued that, instead of working against Asian nationalism, the U.S. should foster it by offering greater economic and technical...
...analytic thinking helps explain the almost magical power individual words seem to have. In his concept of cheng ming, "the rectification of names," Confucius pointed out that names and terminology must be correct, otherwise "the people do not know to move hand or foot." This idea, suggest Edwin Reischauer and John Fairbank in a joint book on Asia, really means not so much that theory should correspond to reality, but "that reality should be made to conform with theory." Similarly, the problem of appearance is involved in the concept of face. Partly, face is a preference of form over reality...
...Reischauer said that too much attention is focused on Vietnam and not enough on the problems of the rest of Asia. He predicted that Chinese leaders would be seeking new directions for their country within two to three years, and he urged that U.S. policy for Asia take this into account...