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.

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

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.

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

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