Word: mainland
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...that the Spanish would even look at a Yorkshire pudding at the ungodly hour of 7:30. There are signs, however, that the concept of time is moving, albeit slowly, toward something like a global standard. In the supposedly languid Orient, industrial Japan adheres to a Germanic punctuality, while mainland China moves at a much brisker pace than it did before the Communist revolution. In Latin countries, even the siesta may one day yield to technological advance and a yearning for managerial efficiency. IBM, alas, has yet to invent a computer that grows drowsy after a heavy, wine-laden lunch...
Should the U.S. succeed and the U.N. grant membership to the People's Republic on the mainland without expelling the Republic of China on Taiwan, the result could be a game of international chicken. Both governments have long vowed not to sit in the U.N. if the other is there as well-but which one would swerve first? Taipei's Foreign Minister Chow Shu-kai told TIME Correspondent Bruce Nelan that, as in the case of diplomatic recognition, "the negotiation and announcement is one matter and the final appearance [of Peking's men] is still another...
...government in control of the bulk of a country's population and territory and in no immediate danger of being deposed should be accepted and recognized, no matter how it came to power. Strictly applied, however, the Estrada principle could support both the Communist claim to the mainland and the Nationalist claim to Taiwan...
Separate Development. If they had any say in the matter, the 12 million native Taiwanese would undoubtedly prefer a government of their own-though most of them are of mainland Chinese stock (200,000 are aborigines, chiefly Malay). It is considered treason for them to talk of independence, but their case rests on the fact that Taiwan was ruled as a fully integrated province of China for only 13 years-from 1886 to 1895, and 1945 to 1949. Thus the island has in effect been separated from the mainland for more than 70 years-and an international doctrine of "separate...
...Koxinga, took his army across the strait to the redoubt of Taiwan, where his troops dominated the indigenous islanders. Koxinga died in 1662, and though his regime lasted another 20 years, his people gradually lost interest in the Ming cause. Meanwhile, the Manchus gradually won acceptance on the mainland. Though they often met opposition with barbaric cruelty, they also punished incompetence and corruption. When the Manchus pushed again in 1683, after the death of Koxinga's grandson, the last Ming stronghold collapsed, and the next year Taiwan became a part of China...