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.

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

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

Taiwan is a major economy.

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

The most important thing that certainly the United States and other Asian and Pacific actors have done is to urge that whatever happens, however the dispute is resolved, that it be resolved peacefully.