As the devastation inflicted by the Opium increased through time and as the Chinese government became more desperate to stop the flow of the drug, it would have become more obvious to the Chinese that war with Britain was going to be inevitable. ... The centralised system of government was in fact foreign, where the ruling class was made up of the Manchurians; foreigners who had invaded China hundreds of years earlier. ... This form of propaganda which slandered the West was helpful to the Chinese government to show a strong front, while in reality the Imperial court was quickly declining in p...

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The opium trade started to spread, and soon a great number of Chinese people were addicted to the drug, therefore the Chinese government outlawed it. ... This defeat was a disgrace to China and was rather humiliating to the "great a powerful" China. ... The government took hold of all the businesses and appointed officials for all the businesses. Mao expanded communism and tried and executed thousands of non-communists in China, and wiped out corruption in the government. ... China finally stood on its own, but was closing China the right choice?...

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The opium trade started to spread, and soon a great number of Chinese people were addicted to the drug, therefore the Chinese government outlawed it. ... This defeat was a disgrace to China and was rather humiliating to the "great a powerful" China. ... The government took hold of all the businesses and appointed officials for all the businesses. Mao expanded communism and tried and executed thousands of non-communists in China, and wiped out corruption in the government. ... China finally stood on its own, but was closing China the right choice?...

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In 2001, China joined the World Trade Organization and has since then maintained a steady growth in both economic and quality of life for the Chinese people.  ... But, the Chinese government is of the opinion if China is only building up their merchant fleet then what is there to worry about? ... Be it from the fact that China is still considered a Communist country or that almost every country in one way or another is currently in China's debt financially, some people do not put much faith into China. ... The current threat does not involve China's claim in 1949, but about China&...

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When Chinese and Japanese soldiers met in Korea Chinas forced had amassed to 350,000 men and seventy one ships (Iriye 14, 15) Even though China outnumbered Japan, Japan was still able to overcome Chinese forces. ... The tax payers in Japan shouldered the responsibility of some of the income by taxes while the government used income from government monopolies. ... Even during these times of military build up and action there were large amounts of Japanese lawyers, doctors, writers all wanting to see if China was the way that their Japanese government had described it. ... After the Japanese ...

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The Chinese government imposed the "17-Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" on the Tibetan government in May 1951,"(Banerjee). The Chinese government believes its claim to Tibet to be valid for three main reasons. ... Second, the Chinese government has traditionally been imperialistic. In the 1950's when violent conflict between China and Tibet began, the Chinese government justified its actions by saying that it was "liberating" Tibet. The government believed, and still believes today, that Tibet needs the Chinese government to help maintain a successful society and to p...

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" Leader Vladmir Lenin led the Bolsheviks as they over through the government and gained power. After over throwing the government, the previous leaders who weren't executed, will attempt to regain power. ... Between WW1 and WW2, China is at war with itself. In this war the Chinese, like the Russians, are battling nationalists and communism, or the government versus communists. The government in China is going to try to get rid of communists. ...

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Second Generation Chinese vs. ... Both Chinese and Japanese were made fun of at school. ... The Chinese were now looked at as the "friend." ... The Chinese were now seeing a different side to America, the opportunistic America that they left China for. ... But not until 1987 did the Japanese get a formal apology from the government for an unnecessary internment of the Japanese. ...

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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. The Soviet border outpost situated on the Ussuri launched a small contingent to intercept the Chinese element. ... China dismissed Moscow's aggressive posture and Mao was reluctant to respond to peace negotiations. According to Thomas Robinson, author of The Sino-Soviet Border Dispute: Background, Development, and the March 1969 Clashes, CIA Director Richard Helms told t...

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Chinese Revolution Many aspects of China's history attributed to China's revolution in 1911. ... As uprisings sprung up all over the country, the government had to increase taxes to suppress these rebellions. But because of corruption on a grand scale within the government, half the money never reached anywhere other than that of the official's pockets. The exhausting corruption which soured the lower levels of government and the top positions in the government were monopolized ruthlessly which added to the people's general tiredness of the way things were run. ... Man...

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Japan over a period of time changed from a quasi-democratic government into a militaristic type dictatorship. ... These values taught obedience not to a democratic but to the emperor; so the fact that the militaristic government of the 1930's ruled under the emperor meant that the Japanese were loyal to this government just as they had been to the government of the 1920's. ... These fires grew as following the 1931 Manchurian incident Japan invaded Manchuria then most China. ... So any move south into china was not favored by the members of the Koda-ha. ... So it was the Tosei-ha ...

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Independence and the Rise of Leadership Cambodia and Laos are two countries near China and Vietnam. After World War II they were both fighting with and influenced by Vietnam and China. ... After the Khmer Rouge took power, they looked to China for protection from the Vietnamese. ... Pol Pot was influenced by China's great leap forward. ... The Khmer Rouge killed off all the educated persons, for example, doctors, teachers, students, lawyers, Buddhist Monks, Muslims, western educated people, as well as cripples, people from China and Laos, and retired government officials. ...

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Panay is one of six small river gunboats that had been built in 1927 to protect American commerce and interest on the Yangtze River in China. ... As Japanese forces approached Nanking in late November 1937, the Chinese foreign Ministry notified American diplomats that they would need to evacuate. ... On December 1st, the American Ambassador Grew notified the Japanese government that the gunboat would embark from Nanking on December 11th along with three Standard Oil barges. ... The Japanese government's official inquiry resulted in the claim that the Panay and the vessels in...

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Although their governmental structures were similar in design, their own particular views on the Communist idea, among other things, differed greatly. ... For China, it was a similar situation. ... Thus, The People's Republic of China was born (3). ... Both China and the Soviet Union disagreed on how best to deal with the west. ... In retaliation, Moscow recalled thousands of Soviet advisors from China and cancelled economic and military aid to China (2). ...

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The new government aimed to make Japan a state focused on equality among its people. ... The Meiji government also forced the return of all former feudal lords" land back to the emperor in order to stabilize the government and divide it into prefectures. ... This, being a high priority for Japan, the government introduced a universal conscription of a new army and navy. ... This being a main cause of the Sino-Japanese War there is also the underlying cause of China sending troops to Korea without notice to the Japanese government. ... The two countries secured a treaty but the Chinese gove...

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Orders to MacArthur by Truman told him to halt proceeding at the first sign of Chinese soldiers. ... Sightings of Chinese soldiers became more and more frequent, and Chinese POWs were taken. ... The Chinese soldiers were sent to guard against invasion, as they feared the US planned to extend their movement into China. ... Every nation has a right to it's own government, and the US helped maintain that. Also, if the US does nothing to stop the spread of Communism, it will eventually overcome all governments, including ours. ...

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To create a new government, the United Nations setup nation wide elections but North Korea would not let them into the north. ... China The relationship between the U.S. and China has almost always been tenuous at best. After WWII, China adopted a type of communism to fit their needs. ... China was helping to defend communism in North Korea but it can be seen as a war between the U.S. and China. ... President Richard Nixon even visited China in 1972 and things seemed to be looking good. ...

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This has prompted international governments to create trade, social, and security connections with one another. ... The war torn history of Japan and China is a large part of why the two governments refused to surrender. ... The Senkaku islands have become a symbol of national pride for both the Japanese and Chinese people, a fact citizens of both countries are not willing to let their governments forget ("How Uninhabited Islands," 2014). ... Even though the Chinese government stopped the public demonstrations, they showed their own form of protest by sending surveillance and patrol ...

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It involves integration of the people, institutions and companies and also governments of different states. ... Accumulation of power in some international government has been enhanced due to economic and technological innovations. ... Globalisation in China China in recent years has enjoyed a very impressive growth in globalisation. ... Migration of people including indigenous Chinese to China has backed greatly to China's economic triumph and progress. ... Political globalisation has enabled the government of China to consider more in thought in setting policies. ...

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Superpowers such as China now realize that fighting only leads to the downfall of their country and its economy. When the decision to invade Taiwan or not presented itself to China in 1996, economists advised the latter, claiming the invasion would, "stop investment in China, stop growth, stop [China's] last chance to catch up with the rest of the world-(258). ... Potential wartime governments have two options from which they can decide: either fight wars and risk losing international support, or make peace with adversaries and keep cash flow infiltrating steadily. ... Gone are...

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He ordered the navy to neutralize Formosa by preventing attacks from Formosa on China or from Communist China on Formosa. ... Macarthur had wanted to do, America government itself, in its "greater Sanctions" (Stokesbury 257). ... Why don't we bomb Manchuria and China itself? Why don't we assist Chinese Nationalist troops to land on the mainland of China?" ... But what General Macarthur tried to do was kicking out China and Russia from Korea, and let Korea build its own country, since all Korean wanted to build their own country, pick up their own government with out any intervention ...

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The people believed the change they sought could be accomplished by voting in the Labour Government. ... Labour was a Socialist form of government in that it hoped to aid all citizens, with ideas including free healthcare and more jobs, no matter what class. ... The Labour government started the groundwork for the release of their land outside the motherland starting with India. ... In 1945 representatives of the United States, United Kingdom, the USSR, and China drew up the United Nations charter in San Francisco from the 25th of April to the 26th of June. ... Great Britain, the United Sta...

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In Russia the newly instated government used terror to maintain the recent change in the state. ... (O"Kane 1991 166) The Terror symbolised the change in government the previous government of Cuba had been tortures and murderers convicted of war crimes Castro's government promised a more humane government the terror symbolised a purging of the system. ... A Terror more similar to that of Russia took place in China in 1949 after the Communist victory. " "High on the list of priorities" of the new communist government was the punishment of Tchiang and other war cri...

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Chinese Intervention (1950) Chinese Communists destroyed any hope of a quick U.S victory when China entered the Korean War on November 25, 1950. On this day, 300,000 Chinese soldiers attacks South Korean and U.S positions. ... They helped to establish a communist government and maintain the country. ... Truman opted out of invading China and was criticized for this decision. ... The U.S has the ability to use South Korea as a puppet state to benefit the U.S government. ...

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Jones was a victim of the government housing project which made him an ideal candidate for the party. ... (RM, Springsteen 1949) Modern day China oppressions its people freedom of speech and expression more than any other county in the world (Chu). ... China has a tight grip on the media of the country, forcing all published information be vetted through the state (Chu). ... Meaning even with the advances in internet usage, China still maintains its dominance over its peoples freedom of speech. The Chinese people feel they have these freedoms but in reality, the government controls all. ...

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