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

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

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

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

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