communist china

Example Sentences

• "An ambitious and aggressive Communist China represents a serious threat to us and to all of its neigbors."
• "But given these difficulties the work was hard and long that year. On May 28, for example, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported out a bill with a rider barring any American contribution to the United Nations in the next fiscal year if Communist China were admitted to membership. The chairman, Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, told reporters that only three of the twenty-three committee members had voted against that rider."
• "In 1962 a special law had to be passed to permit the immigration of several thousand Chinese refugees who had escaped from Communist China to Hong Kong."
• "If this book is ever read in Communist China, the readers may be heartened to know that though it bears the name of an individual author and therefore reflects the persistence of bourgeois individualism, it is nonetheless a product of collective effort."
• "From Communist China there was only ominous silence. Except for sterile and sporadic talks between the American and Chinese ambassadors in Warsaw, a gulf of twenty years of noncommunication separated the world's most populous nation from the world's most powerful nation."
• "The nation was also at peace. The Cold War had ended before Bill Clinton took the helm, and his presidency had experienced nothing that could be called a major international crisis. Turmoil in the Balkans and Middle East was nothing new. Iraq required attention but no massive deployment of Americans. There had been devastating, but fortunately isolated, terrorist attacks in Africa and in Oklahoma City. But the North Koreans had not invaded South Korea, nor had they lobbed one of their missiles in our direction. Communist China did not invade Taiwan. Libya remained quiet."