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2. The United states must maintain the security and increase the strength of the Pacific off-shore island chain (Japan, Ryukyus, Formosa, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand) as an element essential to U.S. security. To this end:


 * . Initiate and support appropriate measures which will contribute to strengthening the economy of Japan, its internal political stability and its ties with the free world.


 * . Increase the military strength of Japan and the Philippines, improve the effectiveness of existing military strength of the Republic of Korea and of Formosa, and continue participation in ANZUS.


 * . Provide related economic assistance to the local governments in those cases where the agreed level of indigenous military strength is beyond the capacity of the local economy to support.


 * . Encourage the conditions which will make possible the formation of, and be prepared to participate in, a Western Pacific collective defense arrangement, including the Philippines, Japan, the Republic of China, and the Republic of Korea, eventually linked with the Southeast Asia security structure and ANZUS.


 * . Intensify covert and psychological actions to strengthen the orientation of these countries toward the free world.

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