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    "ocrText": "ORE 17-49\nfor SECRET\nTHE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE FAR EAST TO THE US AND THE USSR\nTo\nassess\nthe\nthe\nin\nTABLE OF CONTENTS\nthe event of hostiuties\nPage\nPROBLEM, SCOPE, AND ASSUMPTIONS\n3\nSUMMARY\n5\nas\nDISCUSSION\n7\nPolitical Estimate for 1952\n7\nEconomic Estimate\n9\nStrategic Estimate\n13\n1. Strategic Importance to the US\n13\n2. Strategic Importance to the USSR\n17\nGRAPHICS\npolicy\ntowseds\nStrategic Location of Far Eastern Areas.\nPolitical Orientation-31 December 1945.\nAnticipated Political Orientation-31 December 1952.\nPolitical Estimate-31 December 1952 (Table)\nMilitary and Industrial Manpower Potential.\nIndustrialization Potential.\nSERVICE\nAreas of Food Deficit and Surplus.\nAir Distances from Selected Far Eastern Points (8 Figures).\nMajor Airfields in the Far East and Adjacent Areas.\nShipping Tracks and Ports.\nNOTE: The graphic material appearing herein can be used validly only in conjunction\nwith this study.\nA correct interpretation of the political aspects of all graphics herein requires\nthat the reader bear in mind the basic assumption that present trends in the Far\nEast will continue up to an outbreak of hostilities by the end of 1952.\nThe graphic presentation of quantitative data is based on information available\nin late 1948. This material is designed to show broad comparisons of basic economic\nfactors, rather than to serve as a statistical source. Thus, these charts show that\nJapan, with the greatest industrial capacity and reservoir of industrial manpower\nin the Far East, has the greatest food problem in the region. Note that military man-\npower data are based on estimates of World War II strength and do not reflect quali-\ntative differences.\n1\nTOP"
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