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	People's Republic of China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		China is the world's most populous country, with a population of over 1.3 billion people, most of whom are said to be of Han Chinese ethnicity.
		The PRC asserts the Republic of China to be an illegitimate and supplanted entity and administratively categorizes Taiwan as the 23rd province of PRC.
		In 1971, the PRC replaced the Republic of China as the sole representative for "China" in the United Nations and as one of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council; it is also considered a founding member although the PRC was not in control at the founding of the UN.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/People's_Republic_of_China (6419 words)

	China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		China as it exists today has been variously described in different points of view as a single civilization or multiple civilizations, as a single state or multiple states, and as a single nation or multiple nations.
		China is also traditionally thought of as comprising North China (北方) and South China (南方), the geographic boundary between which north and south is largely generalized as Huai River (淮河) and Qinling Mountains (秦岭).
		China is composed of a vast variety of highly different landscapes, with mostly plateaus and mountains in the west, and lower lands on the east.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/China (5333 words)

	mainland China - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about mainland China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The PRC leadership saw the establishment of a policy of ‘peaceful coexistence’ between the USSR and the USA after the 1962 Cuban missile crisis as a betrayal.
		China's attacks on the USSR began obliquely in 1960 with condemnations of Yugoslav revisionism.
		China had insisted that allowing the plane to be flown out of the country would be regarded as a national humiliation.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /mainland+China (6058 words)

	Encyclopedia: South China Sea
		The South China Sea Islands (or Nanhai Islands, simplified: å—æµ·è¯¸å²›, traditional: å—æµ·è«¸å³¶, pinyin: NÃ¡nhÇŽi ZhÅ«dÇŽo) is an archipelago of over 250 around 1-kmÂ² islands, atolls, cays, shoals, reefs, and sandbars in the South China Sea, most of which have no indigenous people.
		The Karimata Strait is the wide strait that connects the South China Sea to the Java Sea, between the islands of Sumatra and Borneo in Indonesia.
		Islands in the South China Sea includes the South China Sea Islands (Spratly Islands, Pratas Islands, Paracel Islands and Macclesfield Bank), islands on the China coast, on the Vietnam coast, on the Borneo coast, and the peripheral islands of Taiwan, the Philippines, etc....
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/South-China-Sea (1918 words)

	China (03/05)
		Whenever China was conquered by nomadic tribes, as it was by the Mongols in the 13th century, the conquerors sooner or later adopted the ways of the "higher" Chinese civilization and staffed the bureaucracy with Chinese.
		China is now one of the leading recipients of FDI in the world, receiving $64 billion in 2004, for a cumulative total of $563.8 billion.
		China is not a member of the Australia Group, an informal and voluntary arrangement made in 1985 to monitor developments in the proliferation of dual-use chemicals and to coordinate export controls on key dual-use chemicals and equipment with weapons applications.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/18902.htm (11645 words)

	ipedia.com: People's Republic of China Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In 1971, the PRC replaced the Republic of China as the sole representative for "China" in the United Nations and as one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
		The PRC maintains the largest standing army in the world, although there is a general belief both within the PLA and among outside observers that numbers are of limited usefulness in estimating the power of a military.
		The PRC, despite possession of advanced nuclear weapons and delivery systems, is widely seen both inside of China and on the outside as having only limited ability to project military power beyond its borders and is not generally considered to be superpower although it is widely seen as a major regional power.
	www.ipedia.com /people_s_republic_of_china.html (2491 words)

	Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
		The leaders of China work very hard to ignore the substance of those statements because if they were to acknowledge the statements as a declaration of independence, China's bluff would have been called and it would be forced to start a war with Taiwan or lose face.
		China objects to such a concept, because unless an alliance with Taiwan is classified as reunification, China's claims of sovereignty and moral superiority are entirely without basis.
		China and the CCP also face drastic economic consequences of a war, such as a trade embargo, tens of millions of unemployed factory workers as a result, a severely damaged infrastructure, and political unrest across the nation.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FB11Ad06.html (3981 words)

	South China Sea -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The minute (additional info and facts about South China Sea Islands) South China Sea Islands, collectively an (A group of many islands in a large body of water) archipelago, number in the hundreds.
		The (An arm of the South China Sea between Indochina and the Malay Peninsula) Gulf of Thailand covers the western portion of the South China Sea.
		Now about 20m under the sea level it was an island until it sunk about 7,000 years ago due to the increasing sea level after the last (Any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface) ice age.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/so/south_china_sea.htm (611 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Asia-Pacific \| Country profiles \| Country profile: China
		China is the largest oil consumer after the US, and the world's biggest producer and consumer of coal.
		The economic disparity between urban China and the rural hinterlands is among the largest in the world.
		China is also becoming a major market for pay-TV; it is forecast to have 128 million subscribers by 2010.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/asia-pacific/country_profiles/newsid_1287000/1287798.stm (1303 words)

	China General Information Base, China Information
		China lies mainly in the northern temperate zone under the influence of monsoon.
		China population is distributed unevenly with more in the east (more than 300 persons per square kilometer) and fewer in the west (about 40 persons per square kilometer.
		The Yangtze of 6,300 kilometers is the longest river in China.
	www.chinatoday.com /general/a.htm (1259 words)

	China and the South China Sea Dialogues — www.greenwood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		China and the South China Sea Dialogues — www.greenwood.com
		China and the South Sea Dialogues provides a valuable contribution to our understanding of Chinese foreign policy towards Southeast Asia in the 1990s as well as its participation in multilateral....Lee's book should become required reading for anyone seeking to understand the potential for a peaceful resolution to the Spratly Islands dispute.
		This book is an important resource for specialists interested in China's relations with Southeast Asian states over the disputed territorial issues in the South China Sea during the 1990s.
	www.greenwood.com /books/bookdetail.asp?sku=C6635 (331 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation.
		Another long-term threat to growth is the deterioration in the environment - notably air pollution, soil erosion, and the steady fall of the water table especially in the north.
		In its rivalry with India as an economic power, China has a lead in the absorption of technology, the rising prominence in world trade, and the alleviation of poverty; India has one important advantage in its relative mastery of the English language, but the number of competent Chinese English-speakers is growing rapidly.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/ch.html (1955 words)

	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
		Hearing on China's Proliferation Practices and Its Role in the North Korea Nuclear Crisis, testimony by Daniel A. Pinkston from the Center for Nonproliferation Studies before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, 10 March 2005
		China's WMD proliferation activities, from CIA's biannual "Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Advanced Conventional Munitions"
		China's WMD proliferation activities, from CIA's biannual "Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Advanced Conventional Munitions" reports to Congress
	www.carnegieendowment.org /npp/country/index.cfm?fa=view&id=15 (1000 words)

	People's Republic of China (PRC) - ADB.org
		PRC has been a member of ADB since 1986.
		The People's Republic of China and ADB signed the Poverty Reduction Partnership Agreement on 29 September 2003.
		ADB Plans $4.5 Billion in Loans for PRC in 2006-2008
	www.adb.org /PRC (118 words)

	China (Includes Hong Kong and Macau)
		The People's Republic of China (PRC) is an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the paramount source of power.
		Several leaders of the unregistered South China Church were arrested in July and subsequently sentenced to death; some of those sentences were suspended and some were appealed.
		In September 2000, a court in Hebei sentenced the cofounder of the environmental NGO China Development Union, Qi Yanchen, to 4 years in prison for subversion for writing that the Government would have to introduce political reform in order to avoid widespread unrest.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eap/8289.htm (18034 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On November 24, 2005, Member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Li Changchun returned to Beijing after successfully concluding his visits to Sudan, Namibia, South Africa and Tanzania.
		Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of CPC Wang Jiarui, Minister of Culture Song Jiazheng, Director of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television Wang Taihua, Director of...
		The ground-breaking ceremony of the Greenfield Stadium was held in Trelawny, Jamaica on November 11, 2005.
	www.fmprc.gov.cn /eng (555 words)

	South Korea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Samsung Electronics faces a possible probe by South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission amid press reports that it sold NAND flash memory chips to Apple Computer at below-market prices.
		Thu, 24 Nov 2005 09:00:00 EST Korea to rule on Microsoft antitrust case next week
		South Korea's Fair Trade Commission said yesterday it will delay a ruling in its antitrust case against Microsoft until Nov 30 while its committees continue deliberating.
	www.voyager.in /South_Korea (383 words)

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