One result seems certain from the summit junket of President Nixon to Peking: the sense of confusion and disorientation felt by many Asian nations will deepen, approaching a condition of chaotic anarchy.
Nixon’s talks with Chou En-lai and Chairman Mao Tse-tung in the Forbidden City will be taken as dramatic proof that the era of cold war confrontation and containment is over; that the Dulles Doctrine for Asia, to which the President himself was a party during the Eisenhower years, is no longer U.S. dictum. If American policy is no longer containment of Communism, what is it?
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