which Japan in particular emerged as the central concern of United States

policy in the Pacific. After China was lost to America, the original conception of
India and China as the twin pillars of the United States south-east Asia policy
was reconstituted, with Japan replacing China.
Pandit Nehru, however, stoutly resisted every attempt to put India in
this subservient positionto the regret of many eminent American political
commentators. Richard P. Stebbins, for example, wrote:
The refusal of the Indian Government to accept this countrys
interpretation of the Far Eastern crisis and to endorse our various protective
actions against Communist China had caused lively annoyance in Washington
and for the time being destroyed the possibility of co-ordinated action with
Asias leading non-communist Government. Indias policy mirrored with
painful clarity the distrust of the West, the insistence on the rights of Asias reborn
peoples
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