A key effort of U.S. Asian policy since the Korean war has been to persuade the Western nations to enforce tough trade restrictions on Communist China tougher even than on the Soviet blocspecifically because Red China was a naked aggressor in Korea. Last week the policy was ripped up the middle when the British announced that they intended to relax their controls on Peking; Norway followed suit and so, probably, will others (see FOREIGN NEWS). The argument, as the British put it, was that it was "a vexatious anomaly" that Britain could...
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