Word: trades
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most of Liang's colleagues at the factory are too frightened or too indolent to follow suit. Shenyang is a warning to the government that it cannot easily trade in communism for completely laissez-faire capitalism. There is no national welfare system for workers like Liang. If they leave their work units, they lose their housing, health benefits, education subsidies, pension rights...
China has been eager to market M-11s, tactical ballistic missiles that can carry a 1,100-lb. warhead more than 185 miles. But the Bush and Clinton Administrations slapped trade sanctions on China in 1991 and 1993 for sending M-11 components to Pakistan. The penalties were lifted in 1994, after Beijing promised to abide by an international agreement prohibiting countries from selling rockets with the range of the M-11 that could be fitted with a nuclear warhead...
...nuclear weapons and are racing to acquire the ballistic missiles to deliver them. Under U.S. laws, a presidential finding that China has supplied fully assembled missiles and helped Pakistan build the plant could trigger tough sanctions that might halt billions of dollars worth of Sino-American electronics and aerospace trade...
International New Age (trade show...
Horizon House Publications (convention and trade show...