Taiwan is a major economy.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

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.

Taiwan is a major economy.

So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.