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You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. ”

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. ”

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state. ”

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. ”

I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia. ”

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 greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side. ”

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. ”

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

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