Traditionally, in China and Korea, only monastics engaged in Zen meditation, usually spending at least six months each year in retreat. |
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Leaders from China, Russia, and 14 other countries attended the conference. |
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The Tarim mummies, found in present-day China, were anhydrated naturally by searing desert conditions. |
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Foreign westerners made and sold sesame cakes in China during the Tang dynasty. |
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All this has led to an explosion of protest across China, including among a middle class that has discovered nimbyism. |
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At this time, the East India Company's trade with China began to grow as well. |
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Even outside its formal empire, Britain controlled trade with many countries such as China, Siam, and Argentina. |
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The German book market is the third largest in the world, after the United States and China. |
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From 1 April, NCAC's operations stopped, and its units returned to China and India. |
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The Republic of China was brought in as a member of the Big Four and a future member of the Four Policemen. |
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China traditionally relied on the extended family to provide welfare services. |
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China was the first communist state Thatcher had visited and she was the first British prime minister to visit China. |
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Sister Vincetta, principal of St. Augustine's Elementary School, told us that the pennies in the mite box fed starving children all over China. |
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By contrast, the Ming dynasty in China began once more to practice privatization, especially with regards to their manufacturing industries. |
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Other countries, notably Russia and China, also condemned the zones as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty. |
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Since the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997, it is the most populous Territory. |
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Unicameral legislatures are also common in official Communist states such as the People's Republic of China and Cuba. |
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In China, the German Civil Code was introduced in the later years of the Qing Dynasty emulating Japan. |
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In addition, it formed the basis of the law of the Republic of China, which remains in force in Taiwan. |
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In April 2016, the People's Republic of China was also invited to RIMPAC 2016 despite the tension in South China Sea. |
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Ships voyaging from Basra to India and China would make stops in Qatar's ports during this period. |
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There are also approximately 1,500 companies from China and a similar number from India. |
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Many feared an escalation into a general war with Communist China, and even nuclear war. |
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Further on, the Soviets focused on a bitter rivalry with Mao's China for leadership of the global communist movement. |
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The invasion sparked intense protests from Yugoslavia, Romania, China, and from Western European communist parties. |
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In February 1972, Nixon announced a stunning rapprochement with Mao's China by traveling to Beijing and meeting with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai. |
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Following his visit to China, Nixon met with Soviet leaders, including Brezhnev in Moscow. |
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This designation has been applied to the economies of Singapore, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and the People's Republic of China. |
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While India, Uzbekistan, China, and Iran experienced slowing growth, they did not enter recessions. |
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Protests have also occurred in China as demands from the west for exports have been dramatically reduced and unemployment has increased. |
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In particular, economic stimulus plans were announced in China, the United States, and the European Union. |
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Song Dynasty China introduced the practice of printing paper money in order to create fiat currency. |
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A 2011 OECD study investigated economic inequality in Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Russia and South Africa. |
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In China, merchants around 2000 BCE would hide their wealth from rulers who would simply take it from them and banish them. |
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In addition to hiding it, they would move it and invest it in businesses in remote provinces or even outside China. |
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The United Kingdom won and forced China to allow British merchants to trade opium. |
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Chinese companies may incorporate offshore in order to raise foreign capital, normally against the law in China. |
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Foreign websites such as WikiLeaks and China Digital Times are blocked from mainland China. |
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China continued to build mainline steam locomotives until late in the century, even building a few examples for American tourist operations. |
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It is looking to sell off its stake in a petrochemicals joint venture in China, its largest investment in that country. |
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China has operated the largest program since the late 1980s, including 16 trials. |
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As of 2013, massive hydraulic fracturing is being applied on a commercial scale to shales in the United States, Canada, and China. |
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In China, regulation on shale gas still faces hurdles, as it has complex interrelations with other regulatory regimes, especially trade. |
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This is a significant factor in world population, due to the high level of gender imbalance in the very populous nations of China and India. |
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Some other notable true de facto leaders have been Deng Xiaoping of the People's Republic of China and General Manuel Noriega of Panama. |
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Many Muslims also went to China to trade, virtually dominating the import and export industry of the Song dynasty. |
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Methodism was brought to China in the autumn of 1847 by the Methodist Episcopal Church. |
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The Methodist Church based in Britain sent missionary George Piercy to China. |
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In 1867, the mission sent out the first missionaries to Central China, who began work at Kiukiang. |
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In 1869 missionaries were also sent to the capital city Peking, where they laid the foundations of the work of the North China Mission. |
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In November 1880, the West China Mission was established in Sichuan Province. |
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In 1947, the Methodist Church in the Republic of China celebrated its centenary. |
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However, the Methodist Federation did call for a boycott of Japan, which had invaded China and was disrupting missionary activity there. |
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For example, hamburgers, fast food in the United States, seemed exotic when introduced into China. |
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Since then, other western productions have been staged in China in Mandarin with a Chinese cast. |
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The Theosophical Society popularized the ancient wisdom of the sacred books of India and China in the early years of the century. |
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Bronze was used in Europe and China for large axes and blades, like the Oxborough Dirk. |
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Stamps and moulds were used by most ancient civilizations, from ancient Rome and Mesopotamia to China. |
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It took more than a decade for Russia and China to fully resolve the border issues and to demarcate the border. |
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The decision to open with The Revolution Continues was directly influenced by global interest in China as a result of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. |
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Thus, art history is now seen to encompass all visual art, from the megaliths of Western Europe to the paintings of the Tang Dynasty in China. |
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Since 2015, BAFTA has been offering scholarships for British citizens to study in China, vice versa. |
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In October of the same year, the Second Opium War saw Britain overpower the Qing dynasty in China. |
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The People's Republic of China requires each of its citizens aged 16 and over to carry an identity card. |
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Opened in 1999, Macau's Lotus Bridge supplemented what has been the only border crossing into mainland China through Border Gate. |
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Also, a security barrier is on the border of Russia with Norway, Finland, China, Mongolia, and North Korea. |
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Major sources of trafficked persons include Thailand, China, Nigeria, Albania, Bulgaria, Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine. |
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A recent trend has been for African countries to set up SEZs in partnership with China. |
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Japan has island disputes with all three of its neighbours, Russia, South Korea and China, leaving it diplomatically isolated in its near-abroad. |
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The Persian religious figure Mani listed Aksum with Rome, Persia, and China as one of the four great powers of his era, during the 3rd century. |
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Base Titanium, a subsidiary of Base resources of Australia, shipped its first major consignment of minerals to China. |
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Since the 2000s, the Djiboutian authorities have strengthened ties with China. |
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In 2012, the Djibouti government also enlisted the services of the China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd for the construction of an ore terminal. |
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The collection of fortifications known as the Great Wall of China has historically had a number of different names in both Chinese and English. |
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The Ming adopted a new strategy to keep the nomadic tribes out by constructing walls along the northern border of China. |
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The North African traveler Ibn Battuta, who also visited China during the Yuan dynasty ca. |
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Astronaut William Pogue thought he had seen it from Skylab but discovered he was actually looking at the Grand Canal of China near Beijing. |
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I have not yet found somebody who has told me they've seen the Wall of China from Earth orbit. |
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In October 2003, Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei stated that he had not been able to see the Great Wall of China. |
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There are about 80 nationalities, being the most representative from Italy, Portugal, Lebanon, China, Paraguay and Argentina. |
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The largest trade flows are with Germany, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, and China. |
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Indonesia's major trading partners are Japan, the United States, China and neighbours Singapore, Malaysia and Australia. |
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The top import origins of Indonesia are China, Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. |
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These Amur River islands were until then administered by Russia and claimed by China. |
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The station's importance continued as the main rail connection between the USSR and the Communist China. |
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That treaty effectively made the Argun River, which originates in this area, the border between the China and Russia. |
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Under the Republic of China, Manzhouli came under the jurisdiction of the province of Hsingan. |
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In 1992, Manzhouli became one of the first land border cities opened up by the People's Republic of China. |
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It has since experienced somewhat of a boom as a center of border trade between China and Russia. |
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Roman provinces traded among themselves, but trade extended outside the frontiers to regions as far away as China and India. |
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Hostility to foreigners extends well beyond the anonymous netizenry of China. |
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The flow of nitrogen from night-soil in rural China is valuable, whereas human excrement in an urban center is a pollution problem. |
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In the 15th century China began to require households to pay part of their taxes in cotton cloth. |
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This is what set Europe apart from the technologically advanced, large unitary empires such as China and India. |
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The wildcat's distribution is very broad, encompassing most of Africa, Europe, and southwest and central Asia into India, China, and Mongolia. |
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In China, a few hundred beavers are known to live in the basin of the Ulungur River, near the Mongolian border. |
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There was also a separate domestication in China which took place about 8000 years ago. |
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Leopards are predators of wild boar in the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, the Russian Far East, India, China, and Iran. |
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In modern China, many special economic zones are developed from the sketch, for example, Pudong, a new district of Shanghai. |
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During the 19th century it opened offices in Canada, India, China and Uruguay. |
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The first known banknote was first developed in China during the Tang and Song dynasties, starting in the 7th century. |
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Merchants in China, if they became rich enough, found that their strings of coins were too heavy to carry around easily. |
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To counter this, stealth technologies have been pursued by the United States, Russia, India and China. |
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Additionally, Japanese pilots had received excellent training and many were combat veterans from Japan's campaigns in China. |
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In China, the Flying Tigers also used the same tactics with some success, although they were unable to stem the tide of Japanese advances there. |
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An equivalent tournament for women's football, the FIFA Women's World Cup, was first held in 1991 in China. |
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Today, curling is played all over Europe and has spread to Brazil, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, China, and Korea. |
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Trunk highways in China consist of China National Highways, Expressways in China, and Asian Highway Network. |
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After 1949, all business entities in the People's Republic of China were created and owned by the government. |
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The current economic system in China is formally referred to as a socialist market economy with Chinese characteristics. |
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These eolian loess deposits may be very deep, even hundreds of meters, as in areas of China and the Midwestern United States of America. |
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As of 2016, the world's largest gold producer by far was China with 450 tonnes. |
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Unlike India where gold is mainly used for jewelry, China uses gold for manufacturing and retail. |
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Significant deposits are located in Australia, China, Ireland, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Russia, and the United States. |
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The largest production of lead occurred in South and East Asia, especially China and India, where lead mining grew strongly. |
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As was the case during European industrialization, lead has had a negative effect on health in China. |
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The top three producers of mined lead concentrate in that year were China, Australia, and the United States. |
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The top three producers of refined lead were China, the United States, and South Korea. |
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Zinc mines are scattered throughout the world, with the main areas being China, Australia, and Peru. |
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It has been found in Bahrain, Bhutan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Western China. |
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This marker is present in China and India at frequencies of less than one percent. |
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The worst of housing conditions were to be found in this area, and China was also home to what many regarded as a criminal class. |
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The Seven Military Classics of ancient China view warfare negatively, and as a last resort. |
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Criminal gangs with shotcallers in China, including Triad groups such as the Wo Hop To, have been reported active in San Francisco. |
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Nowadays, the extended scale is only used in Taiwan and mainland China, which are often affected by typhoons. |
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In Guilin, China, cormorants are famous for fishing on the shallow Lijiang River. |
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Finless porpoises have commonly been kept in Japan, as well as China and Indonesia. |
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Ninety four in total have been in captivity in Japan, eleven in China, and at least two in Indonesia. |
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It is also native to much of Central Asia, Siberia, China, Nepal, Mongolia, Korea and Japan. |
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Countries such as China, which had a silver standard, almost avoided the depression entirely. |
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China was largely unaffected by the Depression, mainly by having stuck to the Silver standard. |
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The Chongzhen Emperor of China issued an edict banning smoking two years before his death and the overthrow of the Ming dynasty. |
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A massive increase in opium smoking in China was more or less directly instigated by the British trade deficit with Qing dynasty China. |
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Today Russia leads as the top consumer of tobacco followed by Indonesia, Laos, Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Jordan, and China. |
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Cantonese first developed around the port city of Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta region of southeastern China. |
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Most of these are rare outside their native areas, though they may be spoken outside of China. |
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Since a 1909 Qing Dynasty decree, China has promoted Mandarin for use in education, the media and official communications. |
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Nevertheless, there have been recent attempts to minimize the use of Cantonese in China. |
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As a result, many loanwords are created and exported to China, Taiwan, and Singapore. |
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The term has the same origin, but is not to be confused with 'Cathay', an alternative name for China. |
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Mosques in western China were more likely to incorporate elements, like domes and minarets, traditionally seen in mosques elsewhere. |
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For example, China and the United States are involved with the expansion of the Sana'a International Airport. |
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There is also immigration from outside Europe, including from India, Pakistan, China and Nigeria. |
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Cai Han and Jin Xiaozhu, Autumn Flowers and White Pheasants, 17th century, China. |
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Glazed Stoneware was being created as early as the 15th century BC in China. |
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The earliest pottery vessels date back to 18,000 BC and were discovered in Xianrendong cave in Jiangxi, China. |
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Sherds have been found in China and Japan from a period between 12,000 and perhaps as long as 18,000 years ago. |
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Porcelain originated in China, and it took a long time to reach the modern material. |
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The secrets, which d'Entrecolles read about and witnessed in China, were now known and began seeing use in Europe. |
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These porcelains that came from East Asia, especially China, were some of the finest quality porcelain wares. |
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It was probably introduced to China by Arab traders travelling the Silk Road prior to the Song Dynasty for medicinal use. |
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Stevens travelled to Haikou, China, for the World Open, but his cue failed to arrive on time for his first round match against David Gilbert. |
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China is scheduled to end analog broadcasting between 2015 and 2018, due to the large size of the country. |
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Indian food is gaining popularity in China, where there are many Indian restaurants in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. |
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In early February the North China Marines arrived, bag and baggage, decked out with full uniforms, overcoats and fur-lined hats. |
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To thicken that buffer zone Britain joined other powers in biting off larger chunks of China. |
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The women of China, by bracing and binding them from their infancy, have very little feet. |
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Three celestials died during the voyage, and, in accordance with the contract, their remains were embalmed and carried on to China. |
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How will China make good on its promises to be the new global champion in chief for globalization? |
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My name is China Bayles. I'm the owner of Thyme and Seasons and the co-owner, with Ruby Wilcox, of a new tearoom called Thyme for Tea. |
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Unlike poliomyelitis, paralysis in China syndrome is symmetrical. In addition, cases are seasonal. |
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A cloudburst in the China Creek district followed by continued heavy rains was responsible for the increased water. |
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I have studied your astrological chart and it fills me with more concern than hatred. If you stay in China, I fear you will end up a coaster. |
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Girls who like to cut a wide swath ought to come out to China, for they will have enough flattery and attention to turn their heads. |
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If, when the moment arrives, China is unwilling to side with its allies, the Arabs will rapidly find a declawed Chinese dragon unwelcome. |
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Drss. Ella R. Swinney of Smyrna, Del., has been appointed medical missionary to Shanghai, China, by the Baptist Board. |
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In China, for instance, there is still the need to liberalize the factor market, especially in the land and labor market. |
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The targets suggest the attackers are sympathetic to the vast censorship apparatus known as the Great Firewall of China. |
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The Great Firewall of China is a case of corporate collaboration in censorship. |
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Although difficult to calculate, one prominent newspaper estimates that guolaosi claims the lives of 600 000 people in China each year. |
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Asia estimated that by June 2006 the number of deaths attributed to guolaosi in China had reached six hundred thousand per year. |
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China continues full steam ahead and the Americans continue to guzzle fuel, while supply becomes restricted. |
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Soon, the Portuguese sailed further eastward, to the valuable Spice Islands in 1512, landing in China one year later. |
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China became involved in a new global trade of goods, plants, animals, and food crops known as the Columbian Exchange. |
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Although the bulk of imports to China were silver, the Chinese also purchased New World crops from the Spanish Empire. |
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Despite initial hostilities, by 1549 the Portuguese were sending annual trade missions to Shangchuan Island in China. |
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From China the major exports were silk and porcelain, adapted to meet European tastes. |
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In return China imported mostly silver from Peruvian and Mexican mines, transported via Manila. |
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The UN General Assembly was expected to hold the line again today against seating Red China. |
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Eurasia has been the host of many ancient civilizations, including those based in Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley and China. |
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In October 2010, medical geneticists suggested that all three of the great waves of the plague originated in China. |
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Originating in China, it spread west along the trade routes across Europe and arrived on the British Isles from the English province of Gascony. |
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As the opium trade was illegal in China, Company ships could not carry opium to China. |
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So the opium produced in Bengal was sold in Calcutta on condition that it be sent to China. |
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The Company had at various stages extended its influence to China, the Philippines, and Java. |
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In 1661, amidst the Qing conquest of China, Ming general Koxinga led a fleet to invade Formosa. |
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Before contact was initiated by the West, China followed a policy of isolationism. |
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The transfer of Hong Kong to China in 1997 marked for many the end of the British Empire. |
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Good examples of job production would be a specially designed wedding ring or made-to-measure suits or the Yangtze dam in China. |
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Too weak to resist Japan, China appealed to the League of Nations for help. |
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Throughout this period, the neutral United States took measures to assist China and the Western Allies. |
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It called for the end of American aid to China and for the supply of oil and other resources to Japan. |
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In Asia, when Japan seized Manchuria in 1931, the League of Nations condemned it for aggression against China. |
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The United States, in particular, was angered at Japan and sought to support China. |
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A fragmented China provided easy opportunities for Japan to gain territories piece by piece without engaging in total war. |
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Italy also held strong commercial interests and a strong commercial position in China supported by the Italian concession in Tianjin. |
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The Soviet Union also urged military and cooperation between Nationalist China and Communist China during the war. |
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China fought the Japanese Empire before joining the Allies In the Pacific War. |
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The Soviet Union urged military and cooperation between Soviet China and Nationalist China during China's war against Japan. |
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The KLA participated in the battles ongoing in China with the Kuomintang forces. |
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On the other the chaos of China, four or five provinces of which are being tortured under communist rule. |
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In 1931, Japan seized Manchuria from the Republic of China, setting up a puppet state under Puyi, the last Manchu emperor of China. |
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European countries and the United States ceded control of Treaty Ports in China, with the exceptions of Hong Kong and Macau. |
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The government of Hong Kong, as a special administrative region of China, did not pursue membership. |
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We take an old knackered machine out to China and say, 'Copy that, brand new,' and they do. |
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The traditional Chinese gateway erected in Liverpool's Chinatown is the largest gateway outside of China. |
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This terrain is found in Cuba, Jamaica, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, southern China, and Vietnam. |
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Aggravating this outflow was the fact that silver was the only commodity accepted by China for exporting goods during this period. |
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Hence a PPP calculated using the US consumption as a base will differ from that calculated using China as a base. |
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China has developed an extensive capability to design, test and produce military aircraft, missiles and space vehicles. |
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Evolving further partly in response to the European Central Bank, the People's Bank of China had by 2000 become a modern central bank. |
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It also owns the engineering consultancy Lotus Engineering, which has facilities in the United Kingdom, United States, China, and Malaysia. |
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As well as Hethel in the United Kingdom Lotus has engineering centres in Ann Arbor, USA, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Shanghai, China. |
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In 2016 however Goldman Sachs predicts lower demand due to emerging economies concerns, especially China. |
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Since China has started to invest more money into space activities, the Chinese Space Agency has sought international partnerships. |
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Steamships immediately made use of this new waterway and found themselves in high demand in China for the start of the 1870 tea season. |
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The method of exhaustion was later discovered independently in China by Liu Hui in the 3rd century AD in order to find the area of a circle. |
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Buses are built in many different countries such as Algeria, China, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, and other countries. |
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Alsa's operations in South America and China were retained by the previous owners. |
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Joint logistics and major war games are occasionally carried out by the militaries of China and Turkey. |
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This advantage was lost in the 18th century as other regions edged forward such as China and Western Europe. |
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In subsequent years, China sold the nuclear power plant for energy and industrial growth of the country. |
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Pakistan expects to use the rail service to boost foreign trade with China, Iran and Turkey. |
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Nepal, Bhutan and China are located near Bangladesh but do not share a border with it. |
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Its major trading partners are the European Union, the United States, China, India, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. |
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In her second term as Prime Minister, Khaleda Zia signed a Defence Cooperation Agreement with China. |
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Bangladesh's most important bilateral relations are with the two regional powers India and China. |
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People from mainland China and Taiwan and their descendants constitute a relatively minor proportion of the British Chinese community. |
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The connection between China and London has developed recently, with China hosting the 2008 Olympic Games, before handing the baton on to London. |
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The China Arts Space is an organisation that promotes East Asian visual and performing arts. |
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At the same time in the 1980s, the number of students and skilled emigrants from the People's Republic of China began to rise. |
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Migrants now tend to come from an increasing number of regions of origin in China. |
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The Ceremonial Archway, which was built in Shanghai, China, is located at the heart of Liverpool's Chinatown. |
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In ancient China, nobles sometimes made a point of visiting Mount Tai and, on occasion, all five Sacred Mountains. |
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However, in Mainland China the official language is Mandarin and Simplified Chinese is used as the standard writing system. |
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As in other Asian countries such as Singapore and China, standardised tests are a common feature. |
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Sizable minorities are also found in India, China, Russia, Ethiopia, the Americas, Australia and parts of Europe. |
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Elsewhere, Portuguese missionaries under the Spanish Jesuit Francis Xavier evangelised in India, China, and Japan. |
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This school played a critical role in the spreading of Buddhism to central Asia and China and eventually to other parts of the far east. |
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In the 2nd century CE, Mahayana Sutras spread to China, and then to Korea and Japan, and were translated into Chinese. |
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Conflicting claims over the Spratly Islands are made by Brunei, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam. |
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The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia, and Singapore, have integral rivers that flow into the South China Sea. |
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The horn of the rhinoceros, not part of its skull, was prized in China as well. |
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The antiquity of this form of writing extends before the invention of paper around the year 100 in China. |
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The largest alumni communities outside of the UK are in the United States, Greece and China. |
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Institutions in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are not ranked here, leaving those in mainland China alone. |
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It is the largest palace complex in the world and is located in the middle of Beijing, China. |
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He was born in China and educated in the United States, studying architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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In the late 13th century, a Venetian explorer named Marco Polo became one of the first Europeans to travel the Silk Road to China. |
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In China, pyrotechnicians were respected for their knowledge of complex techniques in mounting firework displays. |
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In 16th century China, the Ming Dynasty's economy was stimulated by maritime trade with the Portuguese, Spanish, and Dutch. |
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At the start of the modern era, the Spice Route between India and China crossed Majapahit, an archipelagic empire based on the island of Java. |
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In southwestern China, sausages are flavored with salt, red pepper and wild pepper. |
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Although gunpowder was first invented and described in China, Bacon was the first in Europe to record its formula. |
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Gu Wuwei's 1916 play The Usurper of State Power adapted both Macbeth and Hamlet as a parody of contemporary events in China. |
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Before leaving China, Russell became gravely ill with pneumonia, and incorrect reports of his death were published in the Japanese press. |
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There are three ways that young people of China were able to access global music. |
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These reflect the diverse environment of the largest continent in the world and range from India to China, the Middle East to Japan. |
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Philosopher Laozi was keeper of books in the earliest library in China, which belonged to the Imperial Zhou dynasty. |
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Tianyi Chamber, founded in 1561 by Fan Qin during the Ming dynasty, is the oldest existing library in China. |
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Cricket was played in 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China and 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. |
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However, several types of sisal fibre are used in dartboards today, originating from East Africa, Brazil, or China. |
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The number of course in other territories increases, an example of this being the expansion of golf in China. |
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The first golf course in China opened in 1984, but by the end of 2009 there were roughly 600 in the country. |
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The final medal tally was led by the United States, followed by China and host Great Britain. |
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The Health Ministry said the dumplings contained a pesticide, methamidophos, which is used in China but is not common in Japan. |
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, horse racing and equestrian sports in China was dominated by Mongol influences. |
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As Hong Kong and Macau are Special Administrative Region, they're allowed to exemption from ban of gambling on mainland China. |
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The Wuhan Racecourse was the only racecourse that organized races in China. |
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At the following race in China, Hamilton secured his first pole position for Mercedes. |
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In China, Button collided with Lotus racer Pastor Maldonado in the latter stages of the Grand Prix. |
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The team once again scored pole position in China, when Vettel managed to set a faster time than Webber, who completed the front row. |
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Expansion of these series has resulted in dedicated tracks being built in Qatar in the Middle East, Sepang in Malaysia, and Shanghai in China. |
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The second greatest center of oak diversity is China, which contains approximately 100 species. |
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Examples include the Singapore National Day Parade, and the parade for the National Day of the People's Republic of China. |
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The largest seaports in the world were in China and included Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Xiamen. |
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Azar Gat is among the scholars who argue that China, Korea and Japan were nations by the time of the European Middle Ages. |
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They renamed the area Manchukuo, and on 9 March 1932 set up a puppet government, with Pu Yi, the former emperor of China, as its executive head. |
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It declared Japan to be the aggressor and demanded Manchuria be returned to China. |
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China is not recognised by 21 UN member states and the Holy See, which instead recognise Taiwan. |
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China controls part of the territory of Kashmir, which is disputed by India and Pakistan. |
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Subsequent military clashes between China and Portugal, however, led to the expulsion of all Portuguese merchants from southern China. |
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In 1951, a boundary zone was demarked as a buffer zone against potential military attacks from communist China. |
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This transfer of sovereignty made Hong Kong the first special administrative region of China. |
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Internet censorship in Hong Kong operates under different principles and regulations from those of mainland China. |
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Hong Kong's largest export markets are mainland China, the United States, and Japan. |
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Other ferry services are provided by operators serving outlying islands, new towns, Macau, and cities in mainland China. |
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Similarly, the term nationalities of China refers to ethnic and cultural groups in China. |
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The defeat which quickly led to manifestations of a new interest in nationalism in China, as well as Turkey, and Persia. |
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United Nations Statistics Division's figure for the United States is 9,833,517 sq km and China is 9,596,961 sq km. |
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Subsequently, in 1971, it lost its permanent seat at the UN Security Council to the People's Republic of China. |
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For example, sources have at times referred to China, France, Russia and the United Kingdom as middle powers. |
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The Japanese government directly governed events in Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, and parts of China. |
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Two years later, China had a fission bomb capable of being put onto a nuclear missile. |
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The Communist government assumed control of mainland China, henceforth known as the People's Republic of China. |
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Between 1996 and 2012, China vetoed 5 resolutions, Russia 7, and the US 13, while France and the UK did not use the veto. |
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China has supported the stronger representation of developing countries and firmly opposed Japan's membership. |
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The summit in 2016 was held in China, the one in 2017 will be held in Hamburg, Germany. |
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Brazil and China supported the establishment of a secretariat, while Italy and Japan expressed opposition to the proposal. |
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Russia, China and South Korea have sent warships to participate in the activities as well. |
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