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...April 23, it will be 60 years to the day that nine warships and 17 other boats defected from Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomingtang during China's civil war, becoming the first vessels in what would become the Chinese Communist government's Navy. To commemorate the occasion, China's military is hosting four days of pomp and ceremony, to recall its meager beginnings, and to celebrate how far it has come. (See pictures of China's economic expansion into Africa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Chinese Navy: How Big a Threat to the U.S.? | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...born in Hong Kong to a family with political connections to the island’s then-ruling party the Kuomingtang. He moved to Taiwan when he was a year...

Author: By Hee kwon Seo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HLS Grad Sworn in as Taiwan's Leader | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...running for the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), which favors independence, and Ma represents the Kuomingtang (KMT), or Nationalist Party...

Author: By Jannie S. Tsuei, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Alums Vie for Top Post in Taiwan's Capital City | 12/6/2002 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Carsun Chang, 82, longtime leader of China's "third force" movement, an amorphous coalition of intellectuals that for 20 years vainly sought to establish a democratic alternative to either Chiang Kai-shek's Kuomingtang or the Communists; in Berkeley, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 7, 1969 | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...Chou En Lai whom he accompanied on several trips now directs a foreign policy based on the premise that Snow's native land perpetuates and itself epitomizes all evil. But he is also the man whose wife Snow saved from capture and death at the hands of the Kuomingtang...

Author: By Kathie Amatnirk, | Title: China Revisited | 4/13/1963 | See Source »

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