As a result of the full normalization of China's relations with Washington and Tokyo, The competitive relationship in the Asian region of the Soviet-American is increasingly tense

The great failure of Soviet policy during the 1960s and 1970s was to have provoked into life a long-feared two-front strategic challenge.

The 1980s will see the increasing "globaliza tion" of what thus far have been regional Asian security issues.

In the coming decade, the United States and its allies will have to consider new approaches to countering the growing Soviet military presence in Asia

The Indochina peninsula is the convergence of all the interests of the great powers and there are always overt conflicts

Continuing conflict in Indochina is the factor most likely to poison the Asian security environment and pro voke heightened Sino-Soviet tensions in the 1980s.

The future evolution of this new phase of the seemingly endless conflict on the Indochina Peninsula is not easily predicted.