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	China - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is elsewhere bounded on the east by Russia and North Korea, on the north by Russia and Mongolia, on the west by Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and on the south by India, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam.
		North China, which coincides with the Huang He (Yellow River) basin and is bounded in the S by the Qingling Mts., includes the loess plateau of the northwest, the N China plain, and the mountains of the Shandong peninsula.
		China's relations with other Asian nations, at first cordial, were affected by China's encouragement of Communist activity within their borders, the suppression of a revolt in Tibet (1959-60), and undeclared border wars with India in the 1960s over disputed territory.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-china.html (6213 words)

	Chinese History - Introduction - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		The Shu dynasty (221-263) was established in south-western China, and the Wu dynasty (222-280) in the south-east.
		China suffered a decisive defeat in 1895 at the hands of Japan and was forced to recognize the independence of Korea, pay an enormous war indemnity, and cede to Japan the island of Taiwan and the Liaodong Peninsula in southern Dongbei.
		China’s relations with the United States worsened in mid-1995 over the informal visit to the United States in June of President Lee Teng-hui of Taiwan and the arrest in July on spying charges of a former Chinese citizen and human rights activist, Harry Wu, who was visiting China.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=53 (13265 words)

	China Travel Service - China Travel Guide
		The city boasts the largest man-made harbor in the north; its Tianjin Port is an important passage linking a dozen of provinces and cities in the north with the sea.
		Tianjin Port is the largest comprehensive trading port in the north of China, boasting the largest container wharf of the country, with 75 berths, 48 of which are for ships of 10,000 tons or larger.
		As a hub of railways in the north of China, Tianjin is located at the joint of the two arteries: the Beijing-Shanhaiguan Railway and the Beijing-Shanghai Railway.
	www.landingchina.com /city_guide/Tianjin_Municipality.htm (1555 words)

	North China Craton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The North China Craton is composed of several major blocks that have been heavily titled over time as a result of collisions with other continental land masses.
		For most of the Paleozoic, it was located in the extreme north of the Earth, often being the northernmost land in the world until it collided with Siberia to comprise the last stage in the formation of Pangaea during the Triassic.
		The climate of the North China Plain is humid but continental, with most precipitation occurring between June and September, though significant falls in winter do occur in the southern part of the region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_China_Craton (691 words)

	Evolution of North American mountain goats and bighorn sheep in China and North America
		It is known that all of the native and fossil bovids in North America dispersed from northeastern Asia into the Western Hemisphere.
		The earliest bovid in North America, Neotragocerus, was described in 1909 and was alive in the latest Miocene, about 6 million years ago.
		The key to North American bovids is eastern Russia and China.
	www.nau.edu /~qsp/research_china.htm (323 words)

	DPRK Briefing Book : China
		In the past, North Korea and China were often called "as close as lips to teeth", and North Korea was seen as China's little brother.
		For China, this all leads to the growing geopolitical importance of South Korea, reducing its strategic and geopolitical interests in North Korea Besides its diplomats, Chinese academicians also express their fear that China could face a terrible predicament unless North Korea actually does give up its nuclear programs and weapons.
		North Korea's continuing nuclear crisis, coupled with the 1993 firing of a Nodong missile and the 1998 firing of a Daepodong missile, as well as spy-ship incidents, has disturbed the regional waters, prompting changes in Japan's traditional pacifist military posture.
	www.nautilus.org /DPRKBriefingBook/china/PRC_Takahashi.html (1682 words)

	U.S. urges China to pressure North Korea - USATODAY.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		China is North Korea's main ally and trading partner.
		Burns said Sunday the diplomatic aim is to "convince the North Koreans that they're isolated, that they have no support in the world, and they've got to come back to" stalled six-nation negotiations aimed at ridding the reclusive, communist-led nation of its nuclear weapons program.
		China and Russia, he said, "understand that, as two members of the six-party framework, they have a responsibility to use their influence with North Korea."
	usatoday.com /news/washington/2006-07-09-bush-north-korea_x.htm?... (634 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Genghis Khan (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While his image in most of the world is that of a ruthless, bloodthirsty conqueror, Genghis Khan is an iconic and beloved figure in Mongolia, where he is seen as the father of the Mongol Nation (see also Mongolia).
		Before becoming a Khan, Temüjin eliminated and united many of the nomadic tribes of north East Asia and Central Asia under a social identity as the "Mongols." Mongol Nation is a term sometimes widely used to refer to the unified administrative rule of Central Asian confederations by Genghis Khan who was the most successful.
		Starting with the invasion of Western Xia and Jin Dynasty in northern China and consolidating through numerous conquests including the Khwarezmid Empire in Persia, Mongol rule across the Eurasian landmass radically altered the demography and geopolitics of these areas.
	www.nationmaster.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/Genghis-Khan (1551 words)

	USATODAY.com - Chinese seek resources, profits in Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		China's trade is a sliver less than the $34 billion trade with the USA.
		China is able to exploit markets in countries with questionable human rights records because its companies are not subject to legal challenges by homegrown non-governmental organizations, says Drew Thompson, China analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.
		China, one of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, has used its influence to argue against harsher sanctions.
	www.usatoday.com /money/world/2005-06-21-africa-china-usat_x.htm (1086 words)

	Chinese History - Prehistoric cultures of China (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		In China, north and south, agriculture, pottery and stone polishing occurred approximately at the same time.
		China's civilisation was divided by the Yangshao culture in the west (cultures bearers were called Xia å¤) and the Longshan culture in the east (bearers called Yi å¤·), a theory that was valid into the 1950es when it was revised by the discovering of Longshan cultural sites within the Yangshao area.
		This theory was supported by the tradional sinocentric historiography of China and by the simple fact that archeology in China's south was far less developed as in the Central Plain.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Myth/prehistory-event.html (1547 words)

	:: APMN \| mountains - North-East Asia ::
		The north-eastern protuberance of the Asian continent extends from Baikal Lake to the Bering Straits.
		Much of this landmass falls in eastern Siberia and the remainder is in north China.
		The Siberian section north of Baikal Lake is mostly of flat sedimentary rocks.
	apmn.icimod.org /mountains/ch5_north_east_asia.php (178 words)

	Northern and southern China - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As such, the boundary between northern and southern China does not follow provincial boundaries; it cuts through Shaanxi, Henan, Anhui, and Jiangsu, and creates areas such as Hanzhong (Shaanxi), Xinyang (Henan), and Xuzhou (Jiangsu) that lie on an opposite half of China from the rest of their respective provinces.
		The concepts of northern and southern China originate from differences in climate, geography, culture, and physical traits; as well as several periods of actual political division in history.
		Northern China is too cold and dry for rice cultivation (though it does happen today with modern technology) and consists largely of flat plains, grasslands, and desert; while Southern China is warm and rainy enough for rice and consists of lush mountains cut by river valleys.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/North_China_and_South_China (804 words)

	China: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
		After the Korean War began in June 1950, China led the Communist bloc in supporting North Korea, and on Nov. 26, 1950, the Mao regime sent troops to assist the North in its efforts to capture the South.
		In 1965 Tibet was formally made an autonomous region of China.
		China is poised to have the world's fourth-largest economy, after the United States, Japan, and Germany.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107411.html (2609 words)

	China Travel/Tour Resource
		Geographical location: Jilin province is located in the central part of Northeast China, adjoining Heilongjiang Province in the north, Lianing Province in the south, and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in the west.
		It lies in the hinterland of the northeastern Asia composed of Japan, Russia, the Democratic People¡¯s Republic of Korea, the Republic of Korea, Mongolia, and the northeast part of China, adjacent to Russia in the east, and opposite to the DPRK in the southeast across the Tumen and Yalu rivers.
		Climate: Jilin Province is located in the middle latitudes of the northern hemisphere, east of the Euro-Asian continent, the northernmost section of the temperate zone in China, nearing the sub-frigid zone.
	www.2002china.net /china_columns/province/content_815393.shtml (610 words)

	Intraplate Tectonics: North China and Other Regions III - Tectonophysics [T]
		In North China, Cenozoic basalts were erupted in association with formations of graben basins and their regional boundary faults.
		The generation of Cenozoic basalts from the eastern NCC could be related to the back-arc extension owing to late Mesozoic-Paleogene Pacific subduction underneath the Asian continent, whereas subsequent extension in the western NCC may have been induced by the early Tertiary Indian-Eurasian collision.
		In the north the TF and KYTF are south-vergent faults that juxtapose Paleozoic basement with Tertiary sediments.
	www.agu.org /meetings/fm04/fm04-sessions/fm04_T31E.html (3182 words)

	U.S. envoy: China should press N. Korea - Boston.com
		Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns also indicated the United States would not grant North Korea the direct talks it is seeking in the wake of the North's test-firing of seven missiles, including some that possibly could reach the American continent.
		The diplomatic goal for the U.S., Burns said, is to compel North Korea to return to stalled six-nation talks aimed at ridding the reclusive communist nation of its nuclear weapons program.
		Last week, he expressed frustration with the slow pace of diplomacy and urged world leaders to send North Korea a strong message condemning the missile tests, which were staged in defiance of international warnings.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2006/07/09/us_envoy_china_should_press_n_korea (638 words)

	HyperWar: The U.S. Army Campaigns of World War II: China Defensive
		China had been at war with Japan since 1937 and continued the fight until the Japanese surrender in 1945.
		Moreover, civil strife in China, which long predated the outbreak of World War II and was, at best, only obscured by the struggle with Imperial Japan, made any conventional approach to American support unrealistic.
		China remained in the war, diverting 600,000 to 800,000 Japanese troops, who might otherwise have been deployed to the Pacific.
	www.ibiblio.org /hyperwar/USA/USA-C-ChinaD (6719 words)

	U.S. Urges China and Russia to Step Up Pressure on N.Korea - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The United States is urging China to ratchet up pressure on North Korea to end its missile tests and return to international nuclear disarmament talks, The Associated Press reports.
		Burns said the diplomatic aim is to “convince the North Koreans that they’re isolated, that they have no support in the world, and they’ve got to come back to” stalled six-nation negotiations aimed at ridding the reclusive, communist-led nation of its nuclear weapons program.
		China and Russia, he said, “understand that, as two members of the six-party framework, they have a responsibility to use their influence with North Korea.”;
	www.mosnews.com /news/2006/07/10/uspressure.shtml (838 words)

	U.S. urges China: Pressure North Korea
		The diplomatic goal is to compel North Korea to return to stalled six-nation talks aimed at ridding the reclusive, communist-led nation of its nuclear weapons program, Burns said.
		A Chinese vice premier, meanwhile, arrived in North Korea on Monday to attend celebrations of the 45th anniversary of a friendship treaty between the North and China, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
		A North Korean delegation was expected in China on Tuesday to mark the treaty anniversary.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/july2006/100706Pressure.htm (685 words)

	South China (continent) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		South China continent, also known as South China craton (or the South Chinese craton) was an ancient continent (craton) that contained today's South and Southeast China (named after), Indochina, and parts of Southeast Asia (ie.
		South China was bordered by Mirovia Ocean to the north, Siberia to the east, Australia to the west and Laurentia to the south as shown here in the Rodinia paleogeography.
		When Pannotia disintegrated 550 million years ago, South China (and North China) became part of and remained with Eastern Gondwana for millions of years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_China_(continent) (424 words)

	Intraplate Tectonics: North China and Other Regions II - Tectonophysics [T]
		Continental collision between the NCB and South China Block (SCB) started from their eastern ends as early as Permian, leading to the initial continental subduction and subsequent exhumation of 240-235 Ma UHP metamorphic rocks (e.g., Hacker et al., 2000; Ayers et al., 2002) to the crustal level by ca.
		The shape of the crustal thickness contours, trending NNE, correlates well with the shape of the NNE trending North China basin and the Songliao basin, with the crust thickening beneath the Daxin'anling and Taihang mountain ranges to the west.
		The locations of gold ore deposits in North China and oil deposits in North China and Songliao basins correlate remarkably well with low Pn velocities of the region, suggesting the metallogenesis and oil formation of the region may closely related to magma and thermal activity in lithospheric mantle and crust-mantle interaction since Mesozoic and Cenozoic.
	www.agu.org /meetings/fm04/fm04-sessions/fm04_T13E.html (2516 words)

	Newsvine - U.S. Urges China to Pressure North Korea
		WASHINGTON — The United States is urging China to ratchet up pressure on North Korea to end its missile tests and return to international nuclear disarmament talks.
		To overcome this problem, the United States would back a UN resolution affirming China's right to North Korea in exchange for the South being left alone.
		China gets a thumbs up from the International community, the North Koreans get a taste of Chinese capitalism, and Japan, South Korea, Alaska and Hawaii are safe.
	www.newsvine.com /_news/2006/07/09/282089-us-urges-china-to-pressure-north-korea (712 words)

	North China Craton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The North China Craton is one of the smaller continental cratons of the Earth.
		The main blocks comprise the Eastern Block, the Western Block and the Central Orogenic Belt.
		Prior to the Triassic, the North China Craton was an independent continent surrounded by oceans.
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/North_China_Craton (694 words)

	FrontPage magazine.com :: China: The New Red Superpower by Frederick W. Stakelbeck Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		U.S. of a socialist, pro-China continent devoid of economic pragmatism and resentful of U.S.-led free trade initiatives and long-held security alliances.
		China has gained several strong allies on the continent by supporting known dictators like Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir; providing the economic, intelligence and military means for both leaders to remain in power.
		He is an expert on the economic and national security implications for the U.S. of China's emerging regional and global strategic influence.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22115 (1197 words)

	ABC News: U.S. Urges China to Pressure North Korea
		The U.S. envoy on the North Korean nuclear standoff said that he sees no splintering of opinion among the six powerful countries trying to confront the communist nation's recent missile tests.
		Hill is traveling to East Asian capitals effort to round up support for a united response to Wednesday's missile launches, though the U.S. and Japan are split with China and Russia over whether to punish Pyongyang.
		WASHINGTON Jul 10, 2006 (AP)— The United States is urging China to ratchet up pressure on North Korea to end its missile tests and return to international nuclear disarmament talks.
	abcnews.go.com /Politics/wireStory?id=2172314&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (479 words)

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