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

Taiwan is a major economy.

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.

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

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.

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

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