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Containment in Asia Reconsidered

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

David P. Mozingo
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Since the Korean War, United States policies in Asia have gradually developed along the lines of the “containment” doctrine so successfully applied in Europe after 1947. Washington has increasingly seen the problem of Chinese power in Asia in much the same light as that posed by Soviet power in Europe and has behaved as if both threats could be contained by basically the same kinds of responses. In both Asia and Europe, containment measures have reflected a perceived need for complementary interaction between military policies and aid programs in order to prevent aggression by Communist powers and to foster the internal stability of nations in the area. Although difficulties have arisen in seeking the best balance of these components of the containment policy in Europe, most of the essential American objectives in the West have been attained.

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Research Article
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World Politics , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , April 1967 , pp. 361 - 377
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1967

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1 The definitive statement of the Chinese position on “peaceful coexistence” with other non-Communist states was set forth in the Sixth Comment on the Open Letter of the Central Committee of the CPSU, “Peaceful Coexistence-Two Diametrically Opposed Policies,” published December 12, 1963. The full text is in The Polemic on the General Line of the International Communist Movement (Peking 1965), 259–301.

2 For complete texts of Chou En-lai's three speeches at the Bandung Conference on relations with Asian countries, see China and the Asian-African Conference (Documents) (Peking 1955).