Word: chinghai
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next the Nanking Government dispatched formal notes to all States having relations with China. These were told that the immediate withdrawal of all their nationals from the provinces of Suiyuan, Ningsia and Chinghai is "necessitated by bandit suppression operations." This was another owlish Chinese joke, designating as mere "bandits" the Manchukuoan and Mongol soldier puppets of Japan...