You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
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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.William Kirby
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.
William 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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And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.
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So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.
William Kirby
The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.
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