Mainland
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A deeper recession – as anticipated by the Board’s plan – will further decrease opportunities in the island, fueling more migration to the
mainland.
The Tibetan Plateau, for example, is the world’s largest freshwater repository and the source of Asia’s greatest rivers, including those that are the lifeblood for
mainland
China and South and Southeast Asia.
Their focus on inhibiting India seems particularly misguided, given that China’s core interests (Tibet, Taiwan, and the heartland of the Chinese mainland) are far beyond the reach of most of India’s military capabilities.
Although each had a common culture, the economic performance of Hong Kong and Taiwan, of West Germany and of South Korea has been incomparably better than the performance of
mainland
China, East Germany, and North Korea.
Today, 800 electors handpicked by the
mainland
Chinese government -- who mostly represent big business -- choose Hong Kong's Chief Executive.
Hong Kong, linked physically to the mainland, provides a more intimate case study for China's people to watch and one day follow.
But if the goal is merely for the communists to retain their monopoly on power, in both Hong Kong and China, then the rot that has settled into Hong Kong's polity and its economy may begin to infect the
mainland.
The demographic trends are all the more worrisome because those fleeing Puerto Rico in search of better opportunities on the US
mainland
are much younger than the population staying behind.
But residents of Puerto Rico are also US citizens and they vote with their feet – the population has fallen from 3.9 million to 3.5 million in recent years as talented and energetic people have moved to Florida, Texas, and other parts of the
mainland.
Such concrete proposals for political reform inspired by Confucian values can rarely be published in
mainland
China.
But while Chen's campaign to safeguard Taiwan against threats from
mainland
China clearly galvanized the party's supporters, it made the uncommitted nervous and the rival KMT angry.
It called for beefing up Taiwan's defense in the face of
mainland
China's missile threats and for building a peaceful framework of relations across the strait that separates Taiwan from the
mainland.
The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office took charge of the paper's correspondents based on the mainland, demanding that they be replaced by ethnic Chinese.
The business sector remains unaffected and continues to talk optimistically of the prospects opened up by closer integration with the
mainland.
Moreover, war plans need to avoid depending on early escalation, particularly against strategic assets on the Chinese
mainland
and elsewhere.
Indeed, relying on the capacity to attack the Chinese
mainland
to defend freedom of navigation and alliance commitments in East Asia could tempt China’s leaders to test America’s willingness to risk Los Angeles to defend the Senkaku Islands.
On the mainland, the Chinese Communist Party has launched the biggest crackdown on universities since the aftermath of the killings in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Recognized ownership of a habitable island, as with
mainland
territory, includes a 12-nautical-mile territorial sea, a 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone or EEZ and rights over any associated continental shelf (subject to any overlapping rights of others).
Over 600 missiles, already deployed on the mainland, are aimed at cities and military bases on the island.
Similarly, the two countries have a common interest in stabilizing
mainland
China’s relations with Taiwan.
That difference led to active exchange-rate arbitrage by
mainland
importers and multinational firms – one form of capital inflows from Hong Kong to the
mainland.
Correspondingly, RMB liabilities owed by
mainland
Chinese and multinationals increased, as did RMB assets held by Hong Kong residents.
Consequently,
mainland
importers and multinationals stopped buying dollars from the CNH market and returned to the CNY market.
Reverse arbitrage meant capital outflows from the Chinese
mainland.
His most controversial political moves were aimed at his domestic opponents, not the Chinese government on the
mainland.
He led a vicious campaign to portray all Taiwanese with
mainland
Chinese roots, even if born and bred in Taiwan, as untrustworthy carpetbaggers – wai shen ren , or “not native people” – as if they were aliens from a different culture.
Moreover, the attempt to do so angered the overwhelming majority of Taiwanese, who finally understood the stupidity of Chen’s policy, particularly how it led to economic stagnation at a time when
mainland
China was booming.
Before its reunification with
mainland
China, many people expected the former British colony to grab headlines as Beijing progressively stripped its freedoms.
Religious and sociopolitical associations fear that their global ties will be severed and their existence threatened if their counterparts abroad are declared subversive in
mainland
China.
Only the most obvious of the targets of August 1971, Japan, was badly hit by what the Japanese called the second “Nixon shokku” (the first being Nixon’s announcement the previous month that he would visit
mainland
China in 1972).
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