"The head pin was China. It is down already. The two pins in the second row * 1 point
are Burma and Indochina. If they go, the three pins in the next row, Siam,
Malaya, and Indonesia, are pretty sure to topple in their turn. And if all the
rest of Asia goes, the resulting psychological, political, and economic
magnetism will almost certainly drag down the four pins of the fourth row,
India, Pakistan, Japan, and the Philippines."
-Source: Stewart Alsop, "We Are Losing Asia Fast," Saturday Evening
Post, 1950
The ideas in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the
following?
creation of a free-market global economy
internment of people of Asian descent
intervention in the Korean War
establishment of foreign policies that sent monetary aid