Asian Politics Quotes
The offer of Darius was to pay him ten thousand talents, to cede to him all the countries west of the Euphrates, and to give him his daughter in marriage. Parmenio had urged him to take the offer. Alexander then went on and defeat Darius and the Persions who far outnumbered his forces. Asia then had one king who was more popular than Darius had been.
Ford was then a member of Congress. This was known as the “Domino Theory” and was the strategic reason that sending troops to Vietnam was in America’s vital Interest. However, the Domino Theory was incorrect. Vietnam did fall to the Communists, and yet NONE of the countries became communist. Actually, they became even more democratic.
Russia was expansionistic even before the 1914 Russian Revolution with the Communists prevailing. I this case, they had designs on Korea. However, so did Japan and the two would fight in the Russo-Japanese War. Of course neither were concerned with what the Koreans wanted which was independence.
Half a century later there were many Asian countries which had adopted democratic style governments. While Kennan was right at the time, what he did not anticipate is the rapid rise of communications technology and the consequent expansion of American cultural values. The Asians became different people, and when they did so, they adopted democratic forms of government albeit more heavily guided by strong leaders than America and other industrial democracies.
The first has already occurred; the second is still an open question.
Essentially this writer and intelligence operative had discerned the Japanese reason for its expansionism and wrote about it as early as 1921. The issue really became contentious and culminated in the Japanese surprise attack on Pearly Harbor in WWII, when the U. S. would not let them take over the other countries in Asia. When Bland wrote this, Japan had already annexed Korea. See {613106}. After Japan’s defeat in WWII the solved their problem very easily. They practiced birth control and in the early 21st century Japan had a negative population growth.
