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"Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century."
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"There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state."

"I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard."

"Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia."

"The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development."

"The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting."

"Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war."

"The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan."

"East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century."
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