Province
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Chinese assistance in encouraging Pakistan to reach agreement with India and the US on Afghanistan’s future is a good place to start, and will also benefit Chinese security by crimping the ability of terrorists to infiltrate China’s Xinxiang
province
from either Pakistan or AfghanistanClinton recently offered a vision of a “strong, constructive relationship among India, the US, and China.”
Those interests include a new oil pipeline linking Myanmar to Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan
province.
In addition to gas pipelines – the first is scheduled to be completed this year – it will include a high-speed railroad and a highway from the Burmese coast to China’s Yunnan province, offering China’s remote interior provinces an outlet to the sea for the first time.
The other corridor – work on which has been delayed, owing to an insurrection in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
province
– will stretch from the Chinese-operated port at Gwadar, near Pakistan’s border with Iran, through the Karakoram mountains to the landlocked, energy-producing Xinjiang
province.
A separate but simultaneous vote in the oil-rich
province
of Abyei will allow voters to choose if they want to join the North or South.
A tiny elite of Tutsi from the southern
province
of Bururi controlled all institutions, exploiting them to the fullest.
The shocking assassinations of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistan’s minister for minority affairs, and the governor of Punjab province, Salmaan Taseer, ensured that anyone who speaks out on this topic can expect swift retribution.
They were soon extended to include the capture of Baghdad, capital of the Ottoman Empire's
province
of Mesopotamia, and the territory beyond.
My Russian friends – many of them computer programmers, but also some shoppers and business executives – routinely dismissed politics as the
province
of the naive or the corrupt.
Finding a home for the Ottoman
province
of Mosul proved to be a particularly tricky part of the game, as it was claimed by the new governments in both Turkey and Iraq.
Eventually, the commission recommended that the
province
be given to Iraq, but only because Iraq was supposed to remain under a League mandate for decades.
Indeed, Iranian officials often declare that Bahrain is a
province
of Iran.
Local authorities in Yunnan province, however, are considering damming the Salween in the quake-prone upstream region.
Three years later, Operation Artemis, a comparable EU mission in the eastern
province
of Ituri, again demonstrated Europe’s resolve to use its military capability to underpin a long-term peace process.
Today, Sunnis in Iraq’s Anbar province, inspired by their brethren in neighboring Syria, are organizing “tribal armies” to do battle with the Iraq national army – a challenge to central authority that no leader could ignore.
The denunciation of popular protests is not just the
province
of autocratic regimes.
Up to 60% of the old growth forest in Nangahar, the second largest opium-producing province, may have been cut during the war years.
In Afghanistan, Sweden has maintained – and even gradually increased – its troop presence in the northern
province
of Mazar-e-Sharif, where, together with Finland, it leads a Provincial Reconstruction Team.
Afghanistan’s Terrorized WomenKABUL – Recently, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) office in Kudoz
province
reported the rescue of a young woman who had been imprisoned in her in-laws’ dungeon for seven months.
For too long Ukraine was a
province
of the USSR and Tsarist empire; the most important one, of course, but still a
province.
Made in China RemadeSHANGHAI – “It’s a dying business,” said the owner of a garment factory I met in Zhuhai, a city in Guangdong
province.
Consider the case of a textiles manufacturing center in Jiangsu province, dubbed the “silk capital” of China.
Moreover, China’s Muslim-majority
province
of Xinjiang, bordering on Afghanistan, can be dangerously affected by a Taliban takeover in Kabul or by the dismemberment of the country.
The next year, the Persian emperor, Yazdegerd III, fled to the border
province
of Khorasan and the Arabization of Persia began, with Persians taking Arab names and converting to Islam.
Qari Noor Mohammad, a religious activist in Faisalabad in Punjab province, was arrested recently and held without charge for several days before his corpse was dumped in front of his house.
Geographical considerations have sometimes been taken into account, with the arrest of an official from a peripheral
province
followed by the arrest of one from a central municipality.
Then, as Chinese were wondering why 2008, a year of supposed good fortune marked by the lucky number eight, had started with so much misfortune, a deadly earthquake struck Sichuan province, killing 80,000 people and leaving millions homeless.
But its reaction to the book A Survey of Chinese Peasants, which is based on interviews over several years with farmers in the poor
province
of Anhui, was a telling reminder that public intellectuals are not welcome to contribute to that effort.
Almost immediately, he launched another campaign to suppress “counter-revolutionaries,” berating one
province
for “being too lenient, not killing enough.”
Then again, the mayor of Datong in Shanxi province, Geng Yanbo – nicknamed “Geng Chaichai,” or “Geng destroys and destroys” – has yet to be held accountable for similarly venal behavior.
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