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- The Asia First strategy was pushed for in the early 1950s by the powerful China Lobby of the Republican Party in the United States. The Asia First strategy called for the future concentration of American resources in the Far East, in a similar way to the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine in Europe, to fight against the encroaching spread of Soviet communism. The policy was suggested in a period of great anxiety in the US as Cold War tensions were heightened following the Korean War (1950–53) and the 1949 communist takeover in the Republic of China after the Chinese Civil War. These tensions put great pressure on President Truman to adopt this policy, but ultimately he rejected it fearing that it would pin the US down in the Far East dealing with a secondary enemy, the People's Republic of China, while his real concern, the Soviet Union, would have a free hand in Europe. Truman, however, made some attempts to strengthen the American position in the Far East but not at the expense of Europe. In 1950, the US promised military assistance to the French in the struggle against the Viet Minh in the First Indochina War. Pressured by the Japan lobby, the US ended its purge policy against suspected war criminals and terminated its program to break up Japanese industrial conglomerates, in a policy shift known as the reverse course. In addition, in 1951, the United States signed a Security Treaty with Japan allowing US troops to remain stationed at Okinawa and tying Japan to the US. Also in the period 1950–51, US reinforcements were sent to South Korea to strengthen the US military position there. In this period the US navy was also steamed into the Formosa Strait as a deterrent to prevent conflict between the Chinese nationalists who had escaped to the island of Formosa (Taiwan) and the Chinese communists in mainland China. (en)
- 亞洲優先（英语：Asia first）是指第二次世界大戰時，美国将领麥克阿瑟主張的大戰略，內容為先集中盟軍資源對付太平洋的日本帝國，並以較少的資源來對付歐洲的納粹德國，在擊敗中國最大的威脅—日本後，英美兩國再集中所有盟軍資源去擊敗德國。當時的意大利國王維托里奧·埃馬努埃萊三世以為美國會採用此戰略對付日本並給予歐洲的軸心國更多時間，因此同意意大利對美國的宣戰。雖然二戰最終採用歐洲優先的戰略，但韓戰爆發後，亞洲優先的戰略最終被採用在冷戰上。 (zh)
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