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...they spare no effort in using all kinds of plots trying to confuse the China question with a so-called Taiwan question. An early reunification of China is the common wish of all Chinese. However, we shall never, just for the sake of reunification, deprive the people on the mainland of their hope to strive for a free and democratic life. Our position is unequivocal: as long as the Chinese Communists impose the Communist system on our people in the mainland, there is no possibility for the two sides to negotiate...
...pressures for trade with the mainland. It is the established policy of the government of the Republic of China not to trade with the Chinese mainland. We do not allow our importers and exporters to trade with the Chinese Communists to prevent the latter from using trade to engage in subversion and infiltration against us and to undermine our economic planning...
...Republic of China is a country that adopts market economy and encourages free trade. The government fully understands the intention of our businessmen to further expand their trade operations. Meanwhile, our businessmen certainly understand the adverse effect of direct trade with the mainland and the pitfalls they may fall into. In recent years the government has endeavored to assist our businessmen to improve the quality of their products, to diversify markets and to increase their competitive ability in foreign trade...
Brookings, Ore. (pop. 5,000), was the only community on the U.S. mainland to be bombed during World War II. The town is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the war's end in equally unique fashion: this week three Brookings high school students will tour Japan as guests of the pilot who flew the missions...
...Shortly after World War II, three-quarters of all Hispanics on the U.S. mainland lived in Texas or California. As of 1980, those two states still accounted for 51% of the total Hispanic population. But large numbers have also settled in Arizona (16% Hispanic) and New Mexico (36%) and in such inland and Northern...