The Great Sage Frox Ocn Toxvo ConsspoxoEnr By 0. M. Gare Faow Our Toxvo Comnesroxnest Hthe Problem of the Pacific" is the name of an article that has been widely read here. Published in a. very popular monthly which enjoys civeulation, the writer rejonymous, but the editor that the author specially well versed to deal with Dis maect" and that he has played up "important role the destinies of our country.
The article commences by saying that the termination of the 1914- 1948 conflict saw the centre of gravity of the world transferred to the Pacific from the Atlantic, a change brought about principally, recording to him, by the rapid de-'Yelopment and industrialization of the United States and Japan, the, emergence of the Soviet Union with an active and assertive social and ceonomie programme and the inezoased competition for Asiatic markets and sources of raw pro nets, especially for those of China, India' and Indonesia.
To-day, he proceeds, the cixeumstances that brought this about have erystalized to n greater extent and, as a result, the issue generally weferved to as "the problem of the Pacific" thas gained la interest till t'thas come to be one 2 the riv St-not the most, dominating in ce temporary polities. In the future, the writer avers, his problem 'Pound to absorb greater and greater attention because the developments which. give the problem of—th fie its significance are proceed-ug; despite occasional windings, along a definite and straight course; and' s0 rapidly that it will not be possible to arrest or alter, to any substantial extent, the course of "What is this problem of the Pinch?" asks the welter, and pro-erin to define it as the constitution of a problem which arose soon after, urabe took to large-scale produetion which brought about the struggle and competition for mar-eto and sources of valuable raw wrodvets, This competition, eclates, is daily growing mare and more acute and the emphasis is more and more on the aco for sources of raw pro-nets than for markets, which is tary to understand, he contends when it is remembered that, in mormal times, the industries of the United States alone need more than fifty por cent. of the enrive raw products of the world.
he principal area of this struggle not by the writer in Qcean basin "because the Pacife Javes the shores of China, Indi Indonesia and the Philippines, all highly populous lands, rich in valu-alle tropical and mine the struggle are, according to the United States, Great Britain, Russia and Japan at, present.
'The interest of the Union," the article cor different, though great, from' that of the others. Rus her own terval sufficient raw products for hor own industries, and the Russian market is large enough to absorb with ease all that Russian factories can turn out." The interest of Russia, however, he thinks, is largely of 'a diplomatic character, determined largely by a ids now under Buro-completely emanbecause Moscow sees in this the best and surest means of safemjarding Russia's frontiers and the 'Soviet system. "Russia will Dear watching," he proceeds, "es cially as her' much-vaunted five-year industrial programme adv es. The real fight for expansion, fhowgh, determined principally by economic velations, is limited to Anverica, Britain and Japan."
The! fight began to gain in intonsiti, the writer avers,-the mo-snort that the United States started look upon herself as an Asiatic power! It was, he says, the inevit fable consequence of the expansion of American economic interests. in Asia "pt the expense of this of Britain. "Statates will show, continhies, "that American exports to Eabtern: Asia increased tremen-dorisly during and after the war, and Abian lands have: beeohie to-day Bo important part of America's foreign commerce, attesting not jonly to the steady growth of America's trade with the Oxient,
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