When the communist armies under Mao Zedong swept through China in 1949, pushing Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists to Taiwan, France feared that Mao would continue his southward move and sweep into the ...
Taipei (AFP) - The leaders of Taiwan and China are to meet on Saturday (Oct 7) for the first time since the two sides split in 1949 after a civil war. Following is a chronology of key dates in ...
On Oct. 1, 1949, Mao Zedong stood atop Tiananmen — the Gate of Heavenly Peace — and proclaimed the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. His victorious army paraded below across central ...
In Beijing, 1949 is celebrated as a year of liberation, yet this narrative is challenged by the realities faced by Tibetans, Uyghurs, and Taiwanese. The Communist Party's centralized power disregards ...
NANKING, Jan. 21, 1949 (UP) - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek headed for exile today, taking a leave of absence as president of Nationalist China to clear the way for negotiations with the Chinese ...
IN LATE MAY 1949, as China’s civil war neared a blood-soaked end, America’s consul-general in Shanghai, John Cabot, was startled when resident Western businessmen cheered the city’s capture by ...
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has produced a 45-page report by James McGregor titled, “China’s Drive for ‘Indigenous Innovation’ – A Web of Industrial Policies.” From the Executive Summary, which... On ...
An opium-addicted nation that remained under occupation by six foreign powers is now the world's second largest economy. How China managed to transform itself from a weak and fragile country to a ...
CHINA'S fundamental problem is the intractable one of pressure of population upon resources, and, as usual, there is a great temptation to look for panaceas. For some people, collective farming is the ...
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