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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...immediate issue: Yes, I do think Asian scholars are complicit, in or to be more exact responsible in some sense for, the government's China policy, even though they "quietly ... voiced objection to the China policy while continuing to work within the government in an advisory role." It seems to me that there are two main aspects of this: the moral and the practical...
Practically, there is much less ambiguity. The discernible results of your (and others') efforts to influence policy from within the system are virtually zero -- more a holding operation than anything else, and hardly a sweeping tide of reform. The Nation of August 19, referring to American support of Franco's Spain, could very easily be pointing at China scholars bent on "subverting" the government...
American spokesmen talk of humanizing the regime from within -- which is what people always claim they are doing when they cannot otherwise justify a distasteful alliance, and which in this case does not seem to have been a conspicuously successful instance of foreign infiltration...
...management and to recommend the most prudent business policies for the Coop. By controlling a majority of the board, however, the group hopes to use its strength to formulate new policies affecting employees, investment, and the community of Cambridge. While this plan for division of the responsibilities and concerns within the board may seem a viable compromise, it could create real headaches in application...
Even if the group's takeover bid succeeds next week, the Coop appears unlikely to change very much. The movement to change the system from within, however, has at least raised some serious questions about the Coop's social responsibility. Whoever governs the Coop for the next year cannot help knowing that pressure is now on to reevaluate some of the Coop's basic employment and community policies...