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Passing the Buck to Tokyo
Axelbank, Albert | October 5, 1970 issue

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The article focuses on the fact that the U.S. holds the view that the Japan has become the superpower in Asia. This will mean in practice that the United States and Japan will exert complementary power to carry out a joint Asian policy. At first, America will provide the military power, Japan the economic It will he a one-two punch, a continuing and mighty attempt to stop the spread of communism across more of East Asia. Gradually, Japan will take over more functions from the Americans. This joint strategy, to be increasingly shouldered by Tokyo, means that the present split in Korea, the Taipei-Peking impasse, and what may be called the "permanent flux" in Indochina, are to be regarded as static arrangements for the 1970s.

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POWER (Social sciences); UNITED States -- Politics & government; ARMIES; COMMUNISM; ASIA; JAPAN; UNITED States
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