"East Asia has prospered since the end of……" — William C. Kirby
"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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11 Quotes by William C. Kirby
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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…
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So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
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Taiwan is a major economy.
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The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
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There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
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Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan,…
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Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and…
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Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human…
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The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the…
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The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge…
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