Panel 4 - Turning to Asia - The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Through History
Walt showed that although America’s plunge into Indochina after 1945 grew out of an anticommunist alliance with Japan, U.S. and Japanese leaders
soon recognized that China would inevitably emerge as the pivotal economic and political power in East Asia.
Presented by Anne Foster ['95], Indiana State University, and Andrew Rotter ['75], Colgate University.