Word: rajaratnam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Foreign Minister Sinnathamby Rajaratnam of Singapore...
Hanoi's calculated effort to get rid of the ethnic Chinese has been denounced throughout the civilized world. "Everybody knows the word that characterizes current Vietnamese policies," editorialized West Germany's prestigious Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "That word is holocaust." Said Singapore's Rajaratnam: "The best anti-Communist propaganda now being put forward anywhere in the world emanates from Phnom-Penh and Hanoi. However critical ASEAN countries might be about the many shortcomings within their own societies, they now have even greater cause to be wary of a 'liberation' that causes thousands of people to risk...
What the activity adds up to, so far, is that many Asian leaders take seriously the prospect of a multipolar diplomacy emerging in the postwar Pacific. "Before, all of us were living under the umbrella of the great powers," Singapore's Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam told TIME's Peter Simms, reflecting the uneasiness of many of his colleagues. "Thailand had America. We had Britain. Now they have taken away the umbrellas-and we are really beginning to feel the heat...
...Asians hope that a stability of sorts will be brought about by what Singapore's Foreign Minister S. Rajaratnam describes as a "fourhanded poker game." He means a balance of interests between the four major powers that will cancel out the dominance of any single nation. For example, Asian diplomats envision an abiding U.S. interest in the area that will continue to compete with Japan's economic power. They see the growing Soviet trade and naval presence as a counterbalance to China...
...well to support those forces, regardless of ideology. In fact, America's chief ideology today should be modernization. "The Americans have the confused idea that any social revolution is Communist?and have thereby handed over the concept of social revolution to the Communists," contends Singapore's Foreign Minister Rajaratnam. Adds a veteran American diplomat in the Far East: "We should start off with great modesty about what...