What Is Our Picture of Asia?

Comments that the United States is only remotely in touch with Asia. American sentiment that China ought to be feared because of its nuclear build up; Equanimity of China's neighbors about its nuclearization; Japan's conclusion that China is nonaggressive; Japanese antipathy toward the U.S. on account of the war in Vietnam; Malaysia and the Philippines' trade relations with China; Absence of any high-ranking diplomat in U.S. capable of having an effective role in American-Asian relations.