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Raises serious questions about the effectiveness of current U.S. foreign policy in Asia. During the past three years, U.S. policies of giving top priority to Western Europe, relying on China to counterbalance the Soviet Union in Asia, rearming Japan and transferring modern weapons and economic aid to such states as Pakistan have not effectively dealt with threats of conflict. The foreign policy proposed focuses on the economic and political value...
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Asia in the 1980s will be extremely important for the U.S. The factors which make it a locale of intensified U.S.-Soviet rivalry include the extension of Soviet naval power to the Western Pacific, the potential of a U.S.-China security cooperation on the theme of "antihegemony," the growing Soviet interests in Southwest Asia and the Persian Gulf area and instability in Indochina.
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From the beginning of American history to 1945, United States foreign policy had looked steadfastly eastward, across the North Atlantic to Europe. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, when criticized for this seeming preoccupation with the Old World, replied, "With Europe everything was possible; without Europe, nothing was possible." Yet after World War II, the reach of U.S. foreign policy widened vastly. In late 1945, Asia's traditionally controlling...
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Based on recently released documents Buhite focuses on those parts of Asia that became objects of Soviet-American competition. He portrays the Soviet Union as an aggressive and expansionist power whose aspirations included not only control of the Kuril and Sakhalin islands but also domination or hegemony in Mongolia, Sinkiang, Manchuria, Korea and Japan and eventual expulsion of the West from Southeast Asia. Buhite believes that the United States...
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