Word: straits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rising manufacturing costs on the island have found a perfect alternative, a place that offers a common language and cheap labor. China has encouraged investors from Taiwan by giving them generous tax breaks. Some 30,000 Taiwanese firms have committed $28.85 billion to various types of projects. Cross-strait trade, which was first allowed in 1990 and must be channeled through third-party locations like Hong Kong, is expected to total $20 billion for 1995. In the past year Taiwan's exports to China increased 25%, while the volume of goods flowing from China to Taiwan shot up 85%. Says...
...sounds true enough. Between these two worlds, separated only by a narrow strait, you have the biggest political, economic and social disparity imaginable. It's more than an island against-mainland matter. It's capitalism against communism. Freedom against control. And, above all, a population of 21 million against 1.2 billion. It would be no exaggeration for the mainlanders to claim, which some of them once did out of envy and hostility, that if each of the 1.2 billion residents in the People's Republic of China (PRC) spit into the Taiwan Strait, the island of Taiwan would be submerged...
There seems to exist every reason to foresee a crisis in a tacit, longtime, mutual appeasement. Forty five years ago, because of the military intervention of the United States, Mao Zedong, reluctantly gave up his ruthless ambition of sparing none. Across the strait, Chiang Kai-shek thought the same. After spending some time interpreting Mao's "mercy," Chiang also subdued his obsession of recapturing the mainland, and his dream of visiting his hometown one more time gradually faded away. With the United States in between, relative peace was achieved out of a forced balance of explosive tension...
...other hand, should also put the emphasis on domestic growth, bearing in mind that antagonism does little good. After all, if in the future China replaces the U.S. as the world's superpower, it might be the Taiwanese government that would eagerly talk about a reunification across the strait. By that time, hopefully, the Taiwanese won't have to wear Mao suits...
...Americas, a look at native tribes showed that they were not all blood brothers. The three main groups, classified by language, were found to be genetically distinct, suggesting that three separate populations from Asia may have crossed the Bering Strait at different times to settle in America. The Amerind, who predominate in most of North and South America, possess only type O blood; among the Na-Dene, who cluster in Alaska, Canada and the U.S. Southwest, O prevails but A makes an appearance; in the Alaskan and Canadian Inuit (Eskimo), A, B, AB and O blood groups show the pattern...