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Westview Special Studies on China and East Asia

China Among the Nations of the Pacific edited by Harrison Brown

with a Foreword by J. William Fulbright

The nations that border the Pacific Ocean are becoming increasingly interdependent, and trade among them-a major cohesive force-has already reached substantial proportions. China Among the Nations of the Pacific examines this new order, focusing on events in China and on how the PRC will affect and interact with its Pacific neighbors as it looks outward from its former isolation.

The authors-all recognized authorities-address such fundamental issues as China's economy, demographics, food and energy supplies, and relations with the rest of Asia. Will China become a major exporter of energy? Will it remain a major importer of food? Is China destined to become one of Japan's major suppliers of raw materials? Can China resolve its maritime jurisdiction disputes with neighboring countries? How will the perceptions of the nations of Southeast Asia concerning China and the Chinese influence the future course of events? The discussion of these and other questions adds a new dimension to the study of China's external relations.

Harrison Brown is director of the Resource Systems Institute, East-West Center, Honolulu.

This book resulted from a symposium that was organized to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the East-West Center in May 1960. The symposium was held at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. The distinguished participants had all been directly affiliated with the East-West Center at one time or another. The audience included China scholars, diplomats from the nations of the Asia Pacific region, members of Congress and their staffs, representatives of U.S. government agencies, and East-West Center alumni.

China Among the Nations of the Pacific

edited by Harrison Brown

with a Foreword by J. William Fulbright

First published 1982 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge
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Copyright 1982 by the East-West Center

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
China among the nations of the Pacific.
(Westview special studies on China and East Asia)
Papers from a symposium held May 19, 1980 at the National Academy of Sciences,
Washington, D.C.
Includes index.
1. China-Economic conditions-1976- -Addresses, essays, lectures. 2.
China-Economic policy-Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. China-Foreign economic
relations-Addresses, essays, lectures. 4. China-Foreign relations-Addresses, essays,
lectures. I. Brown, Harrison Scott, 1917- . II. Series.
HC427.92.C463 337.5109 81-14828
AACR2

ISBN 13: 978-0-367-01894-8 (hbk)

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Guide

J. William Fulbright

I am pleased on this, the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the East-West Center, to be honorary chairman of the symposium "China and the Nations of the Pacific." Twenty years ago, as a member of the United States Senate, I voted for the creation of this unique institution. As early as 1945, I had become interested in trying to promote better relations within the jungle of nations through educational exchanges and helped to develop a program of bilateral exchanges between the United States and other countries. That program, still functioning under the International Communications Agency, in its own way complements the activities of the East-West Center.

Traditional diplomacy's lack of progress in creating a more cooperative spirit among nations suggests most urgently that additional efforts must be put into exchange programs and institutions like the East-West Center if we are ever to resolve the differences among nations in a peaceable manner. As nations become more interdependent and as the major problems confronting them become increasingly difficult to solve, we must all change our attitudes toward the world community. We must change, not only to avoid a fatal nuclear conflict, but also to cope with such problems as pollution of the air and oceans, hunger and malnutrition, overpopulation and underproduction, and depletion of the sources of many raw materials, especially those of energy.

Transnational education, exemplified by the programs of the East-West Center, is the best approach developed thus far to change attitudes toward people with different ethnic, cultural, and ideological characteristics. Differences of language, religion, and customs are truly formidable barriers to understanding and to the development of empathy, but we must surmount them. That is the true mission of this center.

The late Albert Einstein said, after the first nuclear bomb was dropped on Japan, that we must find a new manner of thinking-if we do not, man will be faced with an incalculable catastrophe. This, it seems to me, is the central problem. Can we control the mindless military competition among the major powers and change it into a cooperative contest that will eventually persuade people to accept reason rather than violence as the ultimate means for the reconciliation of differences?

This question was emphasized by two strikingly different articles that appeared in the same recent edition of the Washington Post. The first reported that the Committee on the Present Danger, composed of some of the most influential and powerful men in our country, is urging our government to increase our military appropriation by $260 billion over the next six years. This would be in addition to the $130 billion already proposed by the White House. The second article reported that the Soviet Union is now providing all high school students with extensive superenriched training in mathematics and science. The program is reported to be so successful that the U.S. high school system has been rendered primitive by comparison. In short, it is a concerted drive to produce mass education of unmatched quality.

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