According to some accounts, Marshal Peng Dehuai — the overall commander of the Chinese forces in Korea — is said to have invented this tactic.

According to that the territories comprise the mainland area north of the Boundary Street of Kowloon Peninsula and south of the Sham Chun River which is the border between Hong Kong and Mainland China, as well as over 200 outlying Islands including Lantau Island, Lamma Island, Cheung Chau, and Peng Chau in the territory of Hong Kong.

According to Communist leader Chin Peng, the ambush was routine, the killing by chance, and the guerrillas only learned the High Commissioner was among the dead from news reports.

According to his successor, Chin Peng:

According to Chin Peng, Lai Teck was killed in Bangkok some time in 1947 when Thai Communists tried to capture him.

According to this view, the people indigenous to Taiwan and those who have taken up residence there have been repeatedly occupied by groups including the Dutch, the Spanish, the Ming, Koxinga and the Ming loyalists, the Qing, the Japanese and finally the Chinese Nationalists led by the Kuomintang.

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.

According to the Treaty of Shimonoseki Taiwan was part of Japan at the establishment of the ROC in 1912.

According to this argument, the sovereignty of Taiwan was returned to the people of Taiwan when Japan renounced sovereignty of Taiwan in the Treaty of San Francisco ( also known as San Francisco Peace Treaty, SFPT ) in 1951, based on the policy of self-determination which has been applied to " territories which detached from enemy states as a result of the Second World War " as defined by article 76b and 77b of the United Nations Charter and also by the protocol of the Yalta Conference.

According to a June 2008 poll from a Taiwanese mainstream media TVBS, 58 % of people living in Taiwan favor maintaining the status quo, 19 % favors independence, and 8 % favors unification.

According to the Nature Publishing Index Asia-Pacific ( 2012, corrected count ), NTHU ranks as 3rd institution ( 2nd university ) in Taiwan.

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 a research team studying Taiwanese folk religion at Providence University in central Taiwan, ceremonies are held for Mazu to symbolically go on a tour of inspection of every Mazu temple in Taiwan every year.

According to the 2009 by-fields Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities ( conducted by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan ), PolyU was ranked 72nd in 2008 but 63rd in 2009, in the world in terms of engineering publication performance.

According to the Potsdam Declaration, the transfer of sovereignty over Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China occurred on 25 October 1945 ( Retrocession Day ).

According to this study, Lin had attempted to contact the Kuomintang in Taiwan on two separate occasions shortly before his death.

According to the Regulation of exchange rate between New Taiwan Dollars and the fiat currency in the ROC laws ( 現行法規所定貨幣單位折算新臺幣條例 ), the exchange rate is fixed at 3 TWD per 1 silver yuan and has never been changed despite decades of inflation.

According to Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings and Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, NCKU was ranked second or third among all universities in Taiwan.

According to linguist Robert Blust the Formosan languages form nine of the ten principal branches of the Austronesian language family, while the one remaining principal branch contains nearly 1, 200 Malayo-Polynesian languages found outside of Taiwan.

According Taiwan's G-Music chart the album is the tenth best selling album in Taiwan in 2009.

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

According to archaeological research, the Taiwan region has been inhabited since 20, 000 to 30, 000 years ago.

According to the U. S. Trade Representative website, Zoellick completed negotiations to bring China and Taiwan into the World Trade Organization ( WTO ); developed a strategy to launch new global trade negotiations at the WTO meeting in Doha, Qatar ; shepherded Congressional action on the Jordan Free Trade Agreement and the Vietnam Trade Agreement ; and worked with Congress to pass the Trade Act of 2002, which included new Trade Promotion Authority.

According to their lawyer, Mr. Charles Camp, " he Complaint asks the Court to declare whether the Taiwanese plaintiffs, including members of the Taiwan Nation Party, have certain rights under the United States Constitution and other US laws ".

According to Japanese statistics, in 1900, there were 169, 000 opium smokers in Taiwan, equivalent to 6 % of the Taiwanese population.

According to the definition of metropolitan areas formerly used by the Republic of China government in Taiwan, Taichung – Changhua metropolitan area ( 台中彰化都會區 ) includes the following areas:

According to the definition of metropolitan areas formerly used by the Republic of China government in Taiwan, Tainan metropolitan area ( 臺南都會區 ) includes the following areas:

According to Brownlow and Gill, Chaplin developed a unique method of filmmaking after achieving independence to direct his own films.

According to political philosopher Nikolas Kompridis, the pursuit of freedom in the modern era can be broadly divided into two motivating ideals: freedom as autonomy, or independence ; and freedom as the ability to cooperatively initiate a new beginning.

According to Abu-Jamal, ' Mumia ' means " Prince " and was the name of anti-colonial African nationalists conducting warfare against the British in Kenya at the time of its independence movement.

According to Article 17 of the Constitution, " independence, peace, and solidarity are the basic ideals of the foreign policy and the principles of external activities of the DPRK ".

According to France Bučar, one of the founding fathers of Slovenian democracy and independence, the democracy in Slovenia is very weak, with the power concentrated in the hands of a few people, as in the time of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia before 1991, and the Parliament being only a formal institution.

" According to the Party's statute, amended at the 9th National Congress on 22 April 2001, the CPV was " established and trained by President Hồ Chí Minh, has led the Vietnamese people to carry out successfully the August Revolution, establishing the Democratic Republic of Việt Nam, now the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam, to defeat foreign invaders, to abolish the colonial and feudalist regime, to liberate and reunify the country, and then carry out the cause of renovation and socialist construction and firmly defend national independence.

According to ABC Radio Australia, " Foreign policy issues that feature in Vanuatu include wide support for the Free West Papua Movement and broadly for independence throughout Melanesia, the One China Policy and relations with Australia and New Zealand.

According to Dickinson " the attempt to check irresponsibility will tie up managers of socialist enterprises with so much red tape and bureaucratic regulation that they will lose all initiative and independence " Dickinson 1938 p214 ).

According to UNESCO's website, AMADE promotes and protects the " moral and physical integrity " and " spiritual well-being of children throughout the world, without distinction of race, nationality or religion and in a spirit of complete political independence.

" According to Subhas Chandra Bose, a major proponent of armed struggle for Indian independence, Vivekananda " is the maker of modern India "; for Mahatma Gandhi, Vivekananda's influence increased his " love for his country a thousandfold.

According to a brochure read by Tintin on his plane, Syldavia gained independence from Ottoman empire early, resembling Montenegro and Serbia.

According to the same poll, if status quo is not an option and the ones who were surveyed must choose between " Independence " or " Unification ", 65 % are in favor of independence while 19 % would opt for unification.

According to an October 2008 poll from the Mainland Affairs Council, on the question of Taiwan's status, 36. 17 % of respondents favor maintaining the status quo until a decision can be made in the future, 25. 53 % favors maintaining the status quo indefinitely, 12. 49 % favors maintaining the status quo until eventual independence, 4. 44 % favors maintaining the status quo until eventual reunification, 14. 80 % favors independence as soon as possible, and 1. 76 % favors reunification as soon as possible.

According to a December 2009 poll from a Taiwanese mainstream media TVBS, if status quo is not an option and the ones who were surveyed must choose between " Independence " or " Unification ", 68 % are in favor of independence while 13 % would opt for unification.

According to historian Bill Speidel, when peninsular prohibitionists threatened to shut down Seattle's saloons, Doc Maynard engineered a peninsular independence movement ; King County lost what is now Kitsap County, but preserved its entertainment industry.

According to one interpretation, Indian independence in 1947 marked a generational shift in India.

According to Ukrainian law, anyone who was a citizen of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic who was residing in Ukraine at the time of its declaration of independence and any stateless person living on the territory of Ukraine at the moment of its declaration of independence was granted citizenship.

According to the " Our History " series in the Long Island-based newspaper, Newsday, " In September, 1775, almost a year before the future nation declared its independence from George III, the people of Great Neck, Cow Neck and other areas north of Old Country Road signed their own Declaration of Independence.

According to the Russian history the Ukrainian forces, under the command of Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa, had been in discussions with Charles for some time, and at this point he, Mazepa, officially allied himself to the Swedes in order to gain independence from Russia.

According to neoclassical price-determination theory and game theory, the independence of suppliers forces prices to their minimum, increasing efficiency and decreasing the price determining ability of each individual firm.

According to Alan Budd, the Treasury's Chief Economic Adviser during the period, the important step of central bank independence could only have been successful once monetary stability had been achieved ; " In 1997 the Bank of England was not asked to succeed where politicians had failed ; it was asked to maintain the rate of inflation, namely 2. 5 %, that it inherited.

According to the Royal Household, " he purpose of these resources is to ensure that the Head of State may carry out his tasks with the independence which is inherent to his constitutional functions, as well as with due effectiveness and dignity ".