According to Zhao, through The Epoch Times it can be discerned how Falun Gong is building a " de facto media alliance " with China's democracy movements in exile, as demonstrated by its frequent printing of articles by prominent overseas Chinese critics of the PRC government.

According to the proposal outlined by CPC General secretary and President Jiang Zemin in 1995, Taiwan would lose sovereignty and the right to self-determination, but would be permitted to keep its armed forces and to send a representative to be the " number two leader " in the PRC central government.

The People's Republic of China acquired SS-N-22 launchers and missiles ( specifically, the for-export 3M-80E Moskit variant ) with a 1999 – 2000 purchase of two Sovremenny destroyers from Russia. According to Russia, the PRC funded the development of the SS-N-22 version for the People's Liberation Army Navy ( PLAN ).

According to the Kyodo News, in March 2010 PRC officials told US officials that they consider the South China Sea a " core interest " on par with Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang In July 2010 the Communist Party-controlled Global Times stated that " China will never waive its right to protect its core interest with military means " and a Ministry of Defense spokesman said that " China has indisputable sovereignty of the South Sea and China has sufficient historical and legal backing " to underpin its claims.

According to The Challenge of Hong Kong ’ s Reintegration With China, a book written by Ming K. Chan, Wen Wei Po is a " mouthpiece " of the PRC government.

According to Israel, the relation between the PRC and Hezbollah is more than coincidental.

According to the One China policy, the ROC is no longer represented in the UN and the UN recognizes the PRC as the legal government of China.

According to the PRC the increase is viewed as the result of the abolishment of the theocracy and introduction of a modern, higher standard of living.

According to the PRC, it is the sole legitimate government of China, and thus should also rule Taiwan.

According to the PRC argument, the government of the Republic of China ceased to represent the sovereignty of China when it lost control of the Chinese mainland between 1949 and 1950.

According to Thomas Lum, a specialist in Asian Affairs: " Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) has exerted great effort in manipulating the flow of information and prohibiting the dissemination of viewpoints that criticize the government or stray from the official Communist party view.

According to Asia Law and Business magazine China Awards, the top China firms were King & Wood PRC Lawyers, Commerce & Finance Law Offices, Fangda Partners, Haiwen & Partners, Jun He Law Offices and Lehman, Lee & Xu.

According to the arrangement and authorization of the State Council, the office takes charge of relevant preparations for negotiations and agreements with what the PRC calls the " Taiwan authorities " ( i. e., the government of the Republic of China and its authorized government organizations ).

According to Asia Law & Business, the top foreign Hong Kong law firm of 2007 Johnson Stokes & Master ( now Mayer Brown JSM ) while top PRC law firm was King & Wood PRC Lawyers.

According to the reports, 18 terrorists were killed and another 17 captured in a gun battle between the East Turkestan Independence Movement and PRC forces.

According to the National Bureau of Investigation, Ministry of Justice, Liu left the country on 3 September 2000, for Shanghai, PRC.

According to Hoeksema ( and any PRC writer ) God's undeserving gifts of sunshine, rain, etc.

According to the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), the full British Citizenship obtained by Chinese nationals ( as defined by the Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China ) in Hong Kong through the British Nationality Selection Scheme will not be recognized.

According to state law a slave had to be at least thirty years old before he could be freed.

According to the 1977 constitution of the Republic of Afghanistan ( 1973 – 78 ), all Afghans are equal in rights and obligations before the law.

According to some interpretations, the concept of ahimsa as expounded in the scriptures and law books is not meant to imply pacifism ; war is seen as a normal part of life and the natural duty of the warriors.

According to Arkansas state and Federal law, a seriously mentally impaired inmate cannot be executed.

According to Blake, Disraeli believed in upholding Britain's greatness through a tough, " no nonsense " foreign policy that put Britain's interests above the " moral law " that advocated emancipation of small nations.

According to Brazilian law, BCG is given again to professionals of the health sector and to people close to patients with tuberculosis or leprosy.

According to the synoptic gospels, Christ generalised the law into two underlying principles ; The first is Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one ; and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.

* Entropic forces: According to the second law of thermodynamics, a system progresses to a state in which entropy is maximized.

According to Ampère's circuital law | Ampère's law, an electric current produces a magnetic field.

According to article 37, paragraph 4 of Charter of Fundamental Rights and Basic Freedoms people who do not speak Czech have the right to get an interpreter in a court of law.

According to Alan Ryan, the ideology of the original classical liberals argued against direct democracy, where law is made by majority vote by citizens, " for there is nothing in the bare idea of majority rule to show that majorities will always respect the rights of property or maintain rule of law.

According to this viewpoint, citizens are sovereign, morally autonomous beings with duties to pay taxes, obey the law, engage in business transactions, and defend the nation if it comes under attack, but are essentially passive politically, and their primary focus is on economic betterment.

According to international law a blockade is an act of war, but the Kennedy administration did not think that the USSR would be provoked to attack by a mere blockade.

According to social mores and the prevailing law, marriages, entrance into religious life and migration from one ’ s place of birth to another land required official permission from upper strata ( the lord and the council commissioner ).

According to the prevalent view, Montesquieu is regarded as the ' father ' of comparative law.

According to David, the Romano-Germanic legal systems included those countries where legal science was formulated according to Roman Law, whereas common law countries are those where law was created from the judges.

According to non-Orthodox Jews and critical historians, Jewish law too has been affected by surrounding cultures ( for example, some scholars argue that the establishment of absolute monotheism in Judaism was a reaction against the dualism of Zoroastrianism that Jews encountered when living under Persian rule ; Jews rejected polygamy during the Middle Ages, influenced by their Christian neighbors ).

According to Joseph McCabe, the council was attended by roughly 29 cardinals, 100 " learned doctors of law and divinity ," 134 abbots, and 183 bishops and archbishops.

According to Tibor R. Machan, " Without a market in which allocations can be made in obedience to the law of supply and demand, it is difficult or impossible to funnel resources with respect to actual human preferences and goals.

According to Lenz's law, the field of these electrons will oppose the magnetic field changes provided by the applied field.

According to the Greek nationality law, Greeks born abroad may transmit citizenship to their children from generation to generation indefinitely.

According to Avogadro ’ s law this volume is same for all ideal gases and if we consider ‘ n ’ moles of an ideal gas at STP, then the equation becomes

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

According to The Canadian Dictionary of ASL there are five broad regions of ASL variation in Canada, the Pacific, Prairie, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic regions.

According to SonyBMG, there are no plans to release The Sicilian Defence.

According to the anthropologist Tim Ingold, animism shares similarities to totemism but differs in its focus on individual spirit beings which help to perpetuate life, whereas totemism more typically holds that there is a primary source, such as the land itself or the ancestors, who provide the basis to life.

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

According to Stewart, there was evidence that gambling interests may have influenced Johnson's impeachment trial.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

According to federal guidelines, only approved religious symbols — of which there are 38 — can be placed on government headstones or memorial plaques.

According to Autodesk company information, the AutoCAD software is now used in a range of industries, employed by architects, project managers and engineers, amongst other professions, and as of 1994 there had been 750 training centers established across the world to educate users about the company's primary products.

According to Theravada commentaries, there are five requisite factors that must all be fulfilled for an act to be both an act of killing and to be karmically negative.

According to this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

According to the 2009 CIA World Factbook, there are a total of 43 airports in Belgium, 27 of which have paved runways.

According to the International Telecommunication Union, in 2004 there were only 479, 000 telephone subscribers in the country of nearly 11 million people, with. 061 main lines per 1000 inhabitants.

According to bundle theory, an object consists of its properties and nothing more: thus neither can there be an object without properties nor can one even conceive of such an object ; for example, bundle theory claims that thinking of an apple compels one also to think of its color, its shape, the fact that it is a kind of fruit, its cells, its taste, or at least one other of its properties.

According to this understanding, the self can not be reduced to a bundle because there is nothing that answers to the concept of a self.

According to the London IPO filings, the management team was Philippe Kahn as President, Spencer Ozawa as VP of Operations, Marie Bourget as CFO, and Spencer Leyton as VP of business development, while all software development was continuing to take place in Denmark and later London as the Danish co-founders moved there.

According to Ethnologue, there are over 40 million L2 speakers

According to these scholars, there was something they variously call " earliest Buddhism ", " original Buddhism " or " pre-canonical Buddhism ".

According to Ivinskaya, however, " I believe that between Stalin and Pasternak there was an incredible, silent duel.

According to Okrent ( 2009, p. 190 ), there was a final period of conflict, as Bliss would make continuous criticisms to McNaughton often followed by apologies.

According to the E. J. Erickson the Greek Navy also played a crucial, albeit indirect role, in the Thracian campaign by neutralizing no less than three Thracian Corps ( see First Balkan War, the Bulgarian theater of operations ), a significant portion of the Ottoman Army there, in the all-important opening round of the war.

According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, " although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Costa Rica's GDP per capita is US $ 10, 900 ( 2009 ); however, there is a lack of maintenance and new investment in infrastructure, 21. 3 % of the people living below the poverty line and 7. 8 % ( 2009 ) unemployed.