Mainland
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For two thousand years, they had to defend themselves against attacks by expansionist Tamil kingdoms from the Indian
mainland.
In the case of North Korea, which is quickly working toward an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the
mainland
US, such a conflict could even entail the use of nuclear weapons.
Until the recent launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect corridor, which links the two markets, international investors could not directly buy A-shares on the
mainland
exchanges.
Indeed, the period’s two greatest conflicts – the wars in Korea and Vietnam – were fought on the Asian
mainland.
Indeed, Pakistan’s rate of economic growth is the slowest on the South Asian
mainland
– one-half that of Bangladesh and one-third that of India.
They would be, of course, if people in
mainland
China were allowed to know what is happening in their country’s most successful city.
Nor is that a mere metaphor: under Putin’s leadership, Russia has built at least a half-dozen bridges, including one connecting Crimea to Russia’s
mainland.
Faced with few job opportunities, about 1% of the island’s population is migrating to the US
mainland
every year.
Indeed, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority has had to inject liquidity into its banking system four times in recent months – more than HK$14.4 billion – to stabilize the Hong Kong dollar’s exchange rate, which clearly indicates that the international hot money flowing in is actually heading to the
mainland.
Firms know that as long as the hot money can reach
mainland
banks through Hong Kong, they can expect risk-free yields of more than 2%.
If an evacuation is required, there is the so-called overseas highway – a high-cost engineering feat that links the archipelago’s islands to one another and to the
mainland.
None of this was conceivable as recently as 1992, when Beijing's proclamation of "one country, two systems" - and the decision to peg the
mainland'
s currency, the Renminbi, to the Hong Kong dollar - unleashed the floodgates of foreign investment.
And, under Kim Jong-un’s leadership, the situation escalated further when the regime began making significant progress toward developing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) capable of reaching the US
mainland.
If the US
mainland
becomes a potential target for a North Korean nuclear strike, then the credibility of deterrence could depend on whether the US is willing to sacrifice San Francisco to save Seoul or Tokyo.
Nobody wants to go to war over Crimea, and one must hope that no reasonable statesman would ignore the fundamental tenets of international relations by seizing control of
mainland
Ukrainian territory.
Paradoxically, both the European Commission and hardline Brexiteers could agree on this outcome for
mainland
Britain, except that the latter refuse to accept a border between the
mainland
and Northern Ireland.
Although Mao’s communists had clearly won the civil war and secured control of
mainland
China, the conference organizers disagreed about which government – Mao’s People’s Republic of China (PRC) in Beijing, or Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China (ROC) in Taipei – truly represented China.
By that definition, China considers the islands (whose ownership is disputed by Vietnam and the Philippines) as much a part of the
mainland
as Tibet and Taiwan, making any outside interference taboo.
It would not be acceptable to argue that to bomb a city on the
mainland
was necessary in order to compel the Argentine population to put pressure on the military junta to withdraw from the islands.
Tsai’s victory over the China-friendly Kuomintang implies that relations with the
mainland
– which regards Taiwan as a breakaway province that it will eventually reclaim – will be considerably more measured.
To protest against censorship, the Silicon Valley-based company relocated from
mainland
China in 2009 to the still relatively free Hong Kong.
After six months of life in Hong Kong, money talked: Google reinstated its
mainland
China service, and with the same level of censorship as before.
Decree followed decree, eliminating the shipyards, closing ports, and forbidding Chinese to leave the
mainland.
It also means, though, that he lives a life that is somewhat different from that of many of his peers on the
mainland.
If he had the money, Barientos says he would probably be a “snow bird” – spending summers on the US
mainland
and winter in Hawaii.
To back up its territorial claim, China relies on a map inherited from the Nationalist period – the so-called “nine-dashed line,” which extends nearly a thousand miles south of
mainland
China and sometimes as close as 40 or 50 miles from the coastline of states like Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.
Consider China’s growing re-import trade, whereby goods that have been exported to nearby countries, particularly Hong Kong, return to the
mainland.
In 2011, Hong Kong handled about 14% of
mainland
China’s exports and 13% of its imports, with more than 60% of Hong Kong’s total re-exports originating from the Chinese
mainland.
To see how isolation can disrupt and even reverse this process, consider Tasmania, which some 12,000 years ago was separated from
mainland
Australia when the melting of polar ice caps flooded the Bass Strait.
Archaeological remains indicate that prior to this separation, Tasmanian and
mainland
populations possessed the same skills – such as fire-making – and technologies, including the boomerang, spear-thrower, and polished-stone and bone tools.
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