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It is clear that such actions have
nothing in common with the general
concern for the interests of the peace
and security in Asia. Everyone can see
what sort of “freedom” is offered by
the Saigon regime for the sake of the
establishment of which America is
showering the Vietnam soil with ex-
plosives and napalm. Washington is
working hard on enlisting new recruits
in its aggressive war against the Viet-
namese people.

The USA devotes special attention,
in its attempts to strengthen its posi-
tion in Asia, India and Japan. In doing
so it also tries to use in every way the
great-power policy of the Mao group.
For instance, Time magazine obviously
gloating over the fact, said that “hav-
ing come up against the hatred of
everything foreign and the outrages of
the Red Guards, Japan is now thinking
of such a future when Tokyo, and not
Peking, will become the most important
Asian capital.”

The magazine News & World Report
said: “India and Japan—such are the

sions in connection with China’s policy
definitely played a part in the setting
up of ASEAN—a new association in-
cluding Indonesia, the Philippines,
Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore. It is
the first time that such a large state
as Indonesia decided to join a grouping
with the existence of which Washing-
ton ties up its far-reaching plans of
having an opportunity to draw the so-
far neutral countries of Southeast Asia
into the sphere of American politics.
Everything will depend on the corre-
lation of forces which will develop in
this association between the supporters
and opponents of the contacts with the
imperialist monopolies.

In all the countries, which Wall
Street has an eye on, sentiments are
growing in favor of the strengthening
of national sovereignty and ousting
foreign capital.

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The policy of the Mao _ group,
furthering the interests of imperialism,
is unable to change the situation in
Asia to such an extent as to check or

ist policy in that part of the world
and the great-power tendencies of the
Maoists, and they are making such ef-
forts indeed.

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The fine phrases of Peking propa-
ganda about the “revolution” do not
prevent the Maoists from protecting
and supporting the Chinese-born repre-
sentatives of the big and middle bour-
geoisie in Asian countries. According
to 1960 data, 11.2 million ‘ethnic
Chinese” lived in South-East Asian
countries, and since then the flow of
Chinese has increased.

Only that policy can have a future

- in Asia, as in other parts of the world,

which reckons with the reality of our
age of a rapid growth of the forces of
national independence and freedom. It
is not only futile but also dangerous to
think now in terms of “spring-boards”
and “spheres of influence.” One will
not go far with 19-century mentality,
and the finale will be different from
that on which the adherents of this
mentality hope. The more extreme me-

countries to which the USA is begin-

ning to turn in investigating the oppor-
tunity of creating a balance of forces
in Asia.” Situated in Japan are 150
U.S. military bases, including the head-
quarters of the 7th Fleet. It is substan-
tially under American pressure that
Japan is starting to increase its army
and developing the latest types _of
armaments, especially the submarine
fleet. Such is the goal of Japan’s “de-
fense plan” for 1967-1971. Washington
attaches great importance to the co-
ordination of U.S. and Japanese efforts
in the economic penetration into the
markets of sales, raw materials and
capital in South-East Asia. In that way
it is planned to “dilute” American
policy with the “Asian element.” Being
encouraged with the same purpose are
the bonds and contracts between In-
dia and Japan, conforming to American
interests. In India the USA is working
hard to interfere with the growth of the
state sector of economy and to pro-
mote the private capital sector.
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It is nobody’s secret that apprehen-

sharply retard the growth of the anti-
imperialist struggle -there. Life shows
in a convincing way that, as a result
of this policy of Peking’s ill-famed
leaders, grave damage is suffered by
China, which finds itself in a state of
complete isolation at the time when
the vital interests of its economy and
internal life call for cooperation with
the Soviet Union and other socialist
countries ready to give it fraternal as-
sistance in the advancement along the
socialist road. Whatever plots are nur-
tured by Peking’s leaders who are
blinded by chauvinism and the idea of
hegemony and counterpose themselves
not only to other Party leaders dis-
cagreeing with Mao’s policy but actually
to the entire Chinese people, they will
be able to reverse the course of history
neither in Asia nor, certainly, on other
continents.

True, the peoples who are striv-
ing to consolidate their indepen-
dence and exclude foreign interference
in their life, have to exert fresh ef-
forts for safeguarding their rights and
interests in the face of U.S. expansion-

thods are used by imperialists for
meedling in the domestic affairs of
other countries, the more impressive
are the forces which give rebuff to this
interference, the more serious are the
“costs” of the adventurist policy, as
‘this is clearly obvious from the ex-
perience of U.S. intervention in Viet-
nam. :

The peoples do not need “guardians”
and “mentors”. The continents, which
had moaned under the yoke of colonial-
ism, did not come into motion to
change over from one master to an-
other. Herein is the Achilles heel of
those who dream of new empires on
the place of the disintegrated ones and
now talk of the Pacific as “an American
lake”.

V. Matveyev, the author of this
article, is a Political Observer for
the Soviet Union’s daily, Izvestia. —
This article appeared in the August
30 issue, and has been slightly —
abridged for reasons of space.

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