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162. Paper Prepared in the Department of State

China has enabled us to deal directly and forthrightly with a quarter of the world’s population; buttressed our strategic position. —Have given new attention to our relations with developing nations of particular importance —Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria, for example. —Have strengthened our cooperation with regional organizations of growing importance—the OAS , the Andean Pact and the Caribbean Group in Latin America; the OAU in Africa; and ASEAN in Southeast Asia. —Our commitment to a fair result in Panama, to majority rule in southern Africa, and to the advancement of human rights and hum…