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What else did the hearings accomplish? Because Hubert Humphrey three weeks ago quoted the testimony of Columbia University Sinologist A. Doak Barnett that the U.S. was interested in "containment without isolation" of Red China, many people assumed that the Administration had made a switch in policy. It was hardly that, because China has not been isolated, and certainly not by the U.S. In testimony last week, Professor George Taylor, a University of Washington Asia expert, pointed out that, far from being isolated, Peking has diplomatic relations with 48 nations. "It is Peking that is trying to isolate us," said Taylor...
Strategy of Survival. Meanwhile, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as it continued hearings on Asia policies, a group of distinguished scholars firmly and-atypically of academics -unanimously supported the Administration's Viet Nam policy. Most agreed with Harvard Sinologist Morton H. Halperin-who at 27 is also an adviser on China to the Defense and State departments-that U.S. military power in Viet Nam has convinced Red China's leaders that they face a "long-drawn-out war." Indeed, said Halperin, Peking has now "urged on the Viet Cong the need to adopt a strategy of survival...
...sense of European superiority must be badly shaken by the memory of Buchenwald. Yet since World War II, the peoples of Europe, for all their lingering animosities, have begun to develop more of a common loyalty to the whole region and idea of Europe. Moreover, adds Harvard Sinologist Professor Benjamin Schwartz, "The West has achieved the modern secular state, and its machinery does tend to control internal strife. But most Asian countries are not yet modern nations in this sense...
...Chinese!" a famous German Sinologist, Ernst Grosse, had exclaimed when he bought 16 of Bissier's works in 1919. "I was puzzled," says Bissier, but in 1920 he began studying Zen Buddhism, and at length saw what Grosse meant. "The key element of my work is the balance of contrasting things," he says. He seeks with the brevity of his brushstroke what he calls the "concept of bipolarity": the yin-yang principle of gentle seesawing between the male and female, the calm and the restless, always seeking the ultimate equation that man can never quite strike...
Among the reasons widely cited for the Sino-Soviet split is the case of Marshal Peng Teh-huai, Red China's former Minister of Defense. As reported by Sinologist David Charles in the China Quarterly of London, the story of the marshal's fall from grace is considered generally plausible by Western experts, if perhaps questionable in some details...