Word: taiwan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition, Western arms dealers face an increasingly stiff challenge from the developing countries. "All of God's children are producing military weapons," remarked a U.S. contractor, "so the competition is blistering." New arms exporters crowding into the market include Brazil, Argentina, South Korea, Taiwan, India, Singapore and South Africa. At last month's Paris Air Show, Brazil proudly displayed its new Embraer EMB-312 Tucano, a turboprop military trainer jet that has been ordered by Britain's Royal Air Force. As more countries step up production of military hardware, they are buying less from traditional suppliers. Tokyo's insistence earlier...
...plan exposed a rift within the Administration over trade policy. Commerce Department officials argued that easing export controls would allow U.S. companies to compete with computer makers in such countries as Taiwan and Singapore, which already sell relatively advanced machines to Soviet-bloc buyers. But Defense Secretary Richard Cheney, who advocates strict controls on the transfer of American technology to Moscow, warned that the Soviets would use the U.S. computers for military purposes. Nonetheless, a Cheney aide said the Defense Secretary would not ask Bush to reverse the Commerce Department decision...
...perhaps most pronounced when it comes to fishing, which provides a staple of the country's diet. Japan is currently embroiled in a dispute with the U.S. and several Pacific nations about the charge that the Japanese squid fishermen inflict untold damage on marine life with their drift nets. Taiwan and South Korea also have extensive drift-net operations, but Japan's are the largest. And though U.S. fishermen, as the Japanese are quick to point out, use drift nets, they tend to be much smaller than the Asian variety...
...book titled Made in the USA: A Catalog of the Best American Products. Joel Joseph, the group's founder, plans to contrast such U.S.-made goods as Levi's and Macintosh computers with ringers that include Perry Ellis "America Series" shirts (made in Mauritius) and Rockport shoes (Portugal and Taiwan). Joseph is lobbying for legislation that would require advertisers to disclose where their products are manufactured...
...Chang fled China for Taiwan in 1948, but those newspapers still publishing in China claimed the new champion nonetheless. In his victory speech, Michael also embraced them. "God bless everyone," he said in summation, "especially the people of China...