'Do Not Isolate China’

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 15

'Do Not Isolate China’

(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright)

WASHINGTON, March 11.

An Asian Affairs expert today urged the United States to modify its policy of isolating China.

Professor John K. Fairbank, of Harvard University,

was the second witness heard by the Senate foreign relations committee in its current investigation of United StatesChinese relations. Like the first witness, Professor A. Doak Barnett from Columbia University, who testified on Tuesday, Professor Fairbank said a policy aimed at bringing China into the international community must be coupled with military containment. Professor Fairbank said: “The American build-up in South Vietnam is so massive it comes very close to a colonial take-over, even V ough it is firmly intended to be only temporary.”

He urged the United States to give much greater emphasis to economic and social aid than to destructive military effort.

Washington’s alternative to war with China over Vietnam or other issues had to combine two aspects, Professor Fairbank said. “One is to achieve a better balance between destruction and construction in our own efforts in Vietnam, so that the non-Communist model of nation-building there can compete more effectively with the Chinese Communist model of nation-building. “The other line of effort is to defuse or Jampen Peking’s militancy by getting China into greater contact with the outside world, more connected with the international scene and more interested in participating in it like other countries.”