Word: mainland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...threat from China. President Chiang spent more than a decade in the Soviet Union and his wife Faina is Russian, but his animosity to Communism in any form makes this course seem unlikely. The third factor is Taiwan's continued refusal to negotiate better relations with the mainland. China's Vice Premier, Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing), has cited this hostile attitude as one that could cause Peking to take drastic action. Finally, if Taiwan were diplomatically isolated and torn internally over China's offer of a peaceful reunion, Peking might decide that invasion...
Underlying Taiwan's optimism about the future is the island's burgeoning economic strength. Last year the republic had a 12.8% real growth in gross national product, based largely on a foreign trade of $23.7 billion, greater than that of the mainland. Two-way trade with the U.S. amounted to $7.4 billion, making Taiwan America's eighth largest trading partner. Total foreign investment, mainly from the U.S. and Japan, is $2 billion. Though some of this dates back to the 1950s, about $500 million has been invested so far in 1979 alone. Some American companies, including Ford...
...venture. Why, then, did they announce the program? The purpose was simply to fool the Americans and other foreigners, to attract their attention. The same is true of the "Big Character Posters" on Democracy Wall. The Four Modernizations were designed to give the outside world the impression that the mainland was going to turn into a huge market. But in fact no country can be modernized unless it can first modernize its thinking and its political system. Unless Communist China does this, it can never succeed with the Four Modernizations...
...Cuban leader returned to the land from which he had launched his successful revolt against the government of Fulgencio Batista. At the invitation of President José López Portillo, Castro made a 32-hour visit to the resort island of Cozumel, with a brief stop on the mainland. Between meetings with López Portillo, who effusively welcomed him as "one of the personalities of this century" who had "restored dignity to Cuba," Castro inspected Mayan ruins in Tulum, and ogled bikini-clad American tourists...
...models, they also began to reflect the features of their creators: faces grew rounder and cheekbones higher. Head bent in contemplation, a bronze Maitreya (a young Buddha) possesses a native spontaneity and grace. Similar figures later appeared in Japan, establishing Korea as the transmitter of Buddhist thought from the mainland...