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Pakistan, achieve a position of dominant
influence in Both countries or the sub-continent
Would they accept this position or do they
feel the need for support from whichever of
China or Russia is not supporting the other?
21.In South East Asia, Russia will contime
to sec a particularly vital area where she
can contain Chinese influence. She will
certainly not be content to see a Chinese
hegemony established in the wake of any with-
drawal of the Western military presence.
would probably sock to bolster the various
nationalisms against Chinese enetration.
She
To that negative extent, how far are her aims
the same as those of the West? And is there
any scope for discreet cooperation with her?
22. It is early yet to age the effect of
recent events in Czechoslovakia on Russia's
Asian policies. ill she become so preoccupied
with maintaining her hold on Eastern Europe,
by military and economic means, that she will
be compelled to pull in her horns in Asia?
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