One of the problems, as you know, is that the Chinese language is not as nuanced as others for dealing with the difference between state and country.
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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.William Kirby
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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I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.
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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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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 faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.
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