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So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example... →
The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of... →
You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national... →
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... →
A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention... →
Taiwan is a major economy.
The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
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... →
And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.
I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.
So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting.
There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.