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

- William C. Kirby

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 unimag…

- William C. Kirby

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,…

- William C. Kirby

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 …

- William C. Kirby

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 As…

- William C. Kirby

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

- William C. Kirby

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

- William C. Kirby

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 wi…

- William C. Kirby

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

- William C. Kirby