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 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.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

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.

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.

Taiwan is a major economy.