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<strong>Education long game</strong>
Regarding the editorial about Harvard’s decision to relocate its summer language program from Beijing to Taipei (“Learning thrives where it is free,” Oct. 16, page 8), it is hard to overestimate the potential long-term positive impact actions like that will have on US-Taiwan relations. It is imperative that the government finds ways to convince more US universities to follow suit.
One only has to look at the history of the old Sanford Center, a consortium of a half-dozen leading US universities with significant Chinese studies and language programs that operated at National Taiwan University between 1963 and 1997.
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