"Harvard is first and foremost a university and……" — William C. Kirby
"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."
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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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East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of…
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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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