William C. Kirby Quotes

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• 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.
• Taiwan is a major economy.
• The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
• There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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 most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the…

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