George R. Packard

American East Asia specialist who served as Dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and directed its Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies; his December 1987 Foreign Affairs essay "The Coming U.S.-Japan Crisis" narrated the Fujitsu-Fairchild bid, the 1987 chip tariffs, and the Toshiba-Kongsberg scandal as parallel episodes of a single year's U.S.-Japan tension.

Matters to this vault as the contemporaneous, named-expert source establishing that the Fujitsu-Fairchild and Toshiba-Kongsberg episodes are parallel symptoms of one techno-nationalist anxiety, not cause and effect — the load-bearing evidence for the vault's "embedding false friend" verdict on that pairing.

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