I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.
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The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.
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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.
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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.
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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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