FUTURE OF ASIA

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 90, 12 August 1942, Page 2

FUTURE OF ASIA

TWO DOMINANT FACTORS volCHi OF CHINA AND INDIA "Asia without Japanese Imperialism leaves America and her Allies as tlie dominant factors only ii they are unchallenged bv the great industrial giant of the north, the U.S.S.R. "What can be expected to develop between the U.S.SR. and the United States? Are we to anticipate cooperation between these countries iithe Avesternisation of Asia? "Or should Ave be ready for competition which Avould reopen the fissures in Chinese politics and complicate the future of India? "These are questions Avhich cannot be lightly dismissed or lightly answered. They are questions, however, Avhich Avill not arise in the same form after the Avar as they do now. "Both India and China Avill have the deciiTing voice in their owr> future; China is already more of a free agent than she lias been for a century, and India is much closer to independence. "Those Avho seel* to influence these, countries Avill have to do 'it in terms of co-operation and on a basis of equality . . . But there can be no peace in Asia . . . without good relations btewen America and the Soviet Union. The character of those relations denends on what kind of America and Avhat kind of Soviet Union survive the Avar; the question must therefore be left open."—Professor George E. Taylor, in "America in the New Pacific.''