William Kirby

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. ↗

— William Kirby

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The reform of state industry, and most directly related to that, the banking sector, is enormously daunting. ↗

— William Kirby

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

— William Kirby

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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. ↗

— William Kirby

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