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OCR Page 1 of 77RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL (EXTERNAL MAIL)
CREATOR: [email protected]@INET@EOPMRX
CREATION DATE/TIME:16-FEB-1995 10:36:21.54
SUBJECT:2_16_Politics_Asian_Security
TO: lewis_m
(lewis_m@A1@CD) (WHO)
READ:16-FEB-1995 10:36:21.69
TEXT:
FOREIGN MEDIA REACTION
EARLY REPORT
USIA
OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND MEDIA
REACTION
U.S. INFORMATION AGENCY, WASHINGTON, DC 20547
Patricia McArdle, Branch Chief Media Reaction, (R/MR), Tele. No. (202)619-6511
ursday, February 16, 1995
U.S. POLITICS: NATIONAL SECURITY REVITALIZATION, FOSTER
Leading media outlets were highly critical of the Republicans' "National
Security Revitalization" bill, denouncing it as "tantamount to a betrayal
of half of a century of exemplary U.S. foreign and security policy."
Analysts painted the measure as a deplorable example of "unilateralism" in
foreign policy at a time when, just as Secretaries Christopher and Perry
indicated, the best approach to global problems and conflict abroad might
be to work with other nations and international institutions. On the
nomination of Henry Foster as surgeon general, London's centrist
Independent asserted that President Clinton might have struck "political
gold," since the controversy over abortion "could yet split the
(Republican) party, as it did so fatally in 1992."
ASIAN SECURITY ISSUES:
THE SPRATLYS; REACTORS FOR NORTH KOREA
Focusing on Asian security issues, commentators from the region and in
Britain examined the flexing of Chinese military muscle in the Spratlys
and the dispute between the Koreas over the point of origin of reactors
for Pyongyang. Although there was no comment in today's official Beijing
press on this issue, Hong Kong's independent, English-language Eastern
Express stressed that among those nations alarmed by China's expansion of
military power, "Taiwan has perhaps the most to fear." The independent
Manila Standard concluded that Beijing's move on the Panganiban Reef
(Spratlys) might be a not-so-subtle message to Washington: "Stop picking
on our exports or we create trouble where we can." On the controversy
over which reactors Pyongyang will accept, Seoul's anti-establishment