William Kirby
William Kirby
William Kirbywas an English entomologist, an original member of the Linnean Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society, as well as a country priest, making him an eminent parson-naturalist. He is considered the "founder of entomology"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth19 September 1759
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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.
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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.
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You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.
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A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.
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One of the problems, as you know, is that the Chinese language is not as nuanced as others for dealing with the difference between state and country.
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But our main agenda is really to try to integrate the study of Asia here at Harvard and to play as positive a role as we can in this institution.
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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.
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I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.
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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.
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The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
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There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.
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So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.
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I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.
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And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.