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People's Republic of China
noun
- a country in East Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). : Beijing. : PRC, P.R.C.
People's Republic of China
1- The government of China set up in 1949 after the victory of the communist forces of Mao Zedong . The People's Republic ruled the mainland of China, forcing the government of Nationalist China (see also Nationalist China ) into exile on the island of Taiwan . For years, many Western nations, especially the United States, refused to recognize the People's Republic as the government of mainland China; instead, they exchanged ambassadors only with Nationalist China. The United States recognized the People's Republic as the government of China in 1979.
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"China's failure in football has become a national embarrassment and figuring out the reasons has become a national obsession," Rowan Simons, author of Bamboo Goalposts: One Man's Quest to Teach the People's Republic of China to Love Football, told the BBC.
"When you have the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China, and they come out with a plan like this, they tend to deliver the objectives."
The defeated Nationalist government, led by Chiang Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan in 1949, while the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong established the People’s Republic of China on the mainland.
Under President Carter, the U.S. established diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China in 1979, paving the way for economic and political collaboration with Beijing.
All modern dictatorships have maintained the forms of law as legitimizing cover for totalitarian criminality—Hitler’s Germany, the Soviet Union, the People’s Republic of China.
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