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 People's Liberation Army Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.org (Launch Base)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
There has been much speculation that the PLA would build a aircraft carrier battle group to secure energy lines in the South China Sea, but thus far Beijing has denied that it is actively working on a carrier program.
The decision was made after the United States threatened the use of nuclear weapons against the PRC should it take action against Quemoy and Matsu, coupled with the lack of interest of the Soviet Union for using its nuclear weapons in defense of China.
The Zangger Committee is a group which meets to list items that should be subject to IAEA inspections if exported by countries, which have, as the PRC has, signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
www.launchbase.org /encyclopedia/People%27s_Liberation_Army   (3403 words)

  
 Taiwan encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Taiwan politics and officials, Taiwan History. Travel to Taiwan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Because of its military situation, development on Quemoy was extremely limited and it is now a popular weekend tourist destination for Taiwanese and is known for its quiet villages and beaches.
Direct travel between mainland China and Quemoy was opened in 2002, and there has been extensive tourism development on the island in anticipation of Mainland tourists.
Lieyu Township encompasses the entire Lesser Quemoy Island, and is closest to Xiamen.
www.taiwaniworld.com /wiki-Kinmen   (592 words)

  
 Fix French Bibliography
The second is a list of Chinese geographical terms, and the third is a small French-Formosan vocabulary chart and a note on the "keng," a Chinese measure for distance on the sea, and its relation to other types of measurements.
Klaproth lists the names of a wide range of plants native to or grown on the western plains and finishes by saying that the island lacks cotton and silk.
He includes two charts: one lists the taxes given by those under Chinese control to the Qing government and the amounts of wheat [rice?] and gold [silver?] that the Chinese pay the governors of their island; the second list details the number of soldiers and ships stationed on the island.
academic.reed.edu /formosa/texts/FrenchTexts.html   (7486 words)

  
 People's Liberation Army - InfoSearchPoint.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
During the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), the Red Army was nominally integrated into the Chinese national army forming the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army units.
During this time, the Red Army used primarily guerilla tactics, but also fought several conventional battles with the Japanese and the Kuomintang.
In general, the PLA has been extremely reluctant to be involved in internal security and views these sort of activities as a distraction from its primary purpose of national defense.
www.infosearchpoint.com /display/People%27s_Liberation_Army   (2139 words)

  
 SLAMLibr
He was appointed brigadier general in the United States Army Reserve on May 7, 1957, and on July 30, 1960, he was placed on the retired list.
In his long career as military commentator, Marshall wrote more than thirty books, dozens of journal articles and countless newspaper, radio and television pieces.
In addition to his participation in four American wars, he observed the Sinai War of 1956 and the Six-Day War of 1967, the Lebanon crisis in 1958, the civil war in the Congo in 1961 and the unrest in Southwest Africa in 1965.
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