Word: expansionism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such adventurous cultural expansion has accompanied, and maybe encouraged, less welcome winds from the West: a questioning of authority, a sense of ambiguity, even a loss of faith. "Chinese young people don't believe in anything any more," complains one young writer. With 20% of the urban young in...
Taiwan. The engines of economic expansion are humming again in Taiwan. Growth is running at a 6% rate this year, up from 3.9% in 1982. Board Member Chen forecast that Taiwan could maintain the 6% pace through 1984 and hold unemployment to a low level of 2%.
These tremors notwithstanding, Hong Kong's export industries are so strong that the colony has been able to reach a 6% growth rate. Chen forecast that expansion will slow to perhaps 4.5% next year. The weakness of Hong Kong's currency in the international exchange markets has fanned...
China. The current growth rate of 8% to 9% in the People's Republic of China may be more than this still backward but ambitious country can handle. China's runaway drive to build factories and housing projects has produced cement shortages and other crippling bottlenecks. Chen predicted...
Although the program does not require students to have college degrees, the recent expansion represents an increase mainly in the number of post-graduate students, who currently make up 70 percent of the Extension student population, the report states.