Further evidence of Chinese athletes ' drug use came in 1997 when Australian authorities confiscated 13 vials of Somatropin, a human growth hormone, from the bag of Chinese swimmer Yuan Yuan upon her arrival for the 1997 World Swimming Championships.

The techniques used by the Chinese authorities included a technique derived from standard group psychotherapy, which was aimed at forcing the victims ( who were generally intellectuals ) to produce detailed and sincere ideological “ confessions ”.

Yet, Chinese authorities found it necessary to follow that up with a new, albeit slightly milder, campaign as part of the Maoist “ Cultural Revolution ” of 1966-1968.

Residents of Hong Kong holding licences issued by other Chinese authorities and some foreign countries can get a Hong Kong driving licence exempt from tests if they can adequately show that they obtained their licence while residing in the place concerned ( common proofs are school transcripts or employer's documentation ).

The Malaccan Sultan, based in Bintan after fleeing Malacca, sent a message to the Chinese, which combined with Portuguese banditry and violent activity in China, led the Chinese authorities to execute 23 Portuguese and torture the rest of them in jails.

The senate of Macao complained to the viceroy of Goa, of the contempt with which the Chinese authorities treated them, confessing however that, “ it was owing more to the Portuguese themselves than to the Chinese .” The Chinese were obliged to restrict the commerce of Portugal to the port of Macao, in 1631.

The Chinese Chamber of Commerce agreed on a strike in solidarity with the protesters, which in turn led to increasingly repressive measures by the authorities.

* 1989 – The Chinese authorities declare martial law in the face of pro-democracy demonstrations, setting the scene for the Tiananmen Square massacre.

In 2009, Chinese authorities seized over 40 million tablets that had been illegally trafficked from Burma.

* 2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing a pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress.

Because Chinese viewers often gathered in large groups to watch publicly owned sets, authorities estimated that two-thirds of the nation had access to television.

On 18 December 2008, Chinese authorities deployed People's Liberation Army Navy vessels to escort Chinese shipping in the Gulf of Aden.

" It also concluded that Russian, former Soviet Republics, and Chinese authorities had made a co-ordinated effort to understand the UFO phenomenon and that military organizations, particularly in Russia, had done " considerably more work ( than is evident from open sources )" on military applications stemming from their UFO research.

* 758: Arab and Persian pirates and travelers burn and loot the Chinese city of Guangzhou, while the Tang Dynasty authorities shut the port down for the next five decades.

Sometimes excessive generality and omissions in Chinese law, coupled with the wide discretionary powers conferred on local authorities to implement laws, undermines the predictability and certainty of law.

He made the documentary Chung Kuo, Cina, but it was severely denounced by the Chinese authorities as " anti-Chinese " and " anti-communist ".

It was created by the Chinese government to alleviate social, economic, and environmental problems in China, and authorities claim that the policy has prevented more than 250 million births between 1980 and 2000, and 400 million births from about 1979 to 2011 ; this claim is disputed by two independent scholars, who put the number of prevented births from 1979 to 2009 at 100 million | author = Chen Wei | title = Sex Ratios at Birth in China | year = 2005 | accessdate = 2 March 2009

The first influx of migrants from coastal Fujian came during the Dutch period, in which merchants and traders from the mainland Chinese coast sought to purchase hunting licenses from the Dutch or hide out in aboriginal villages to escape the Qing authorities.

Human rights groups report that Falun Gong practitioners in China are subject to a wide range of human rights abuses ; hundreds of thousands are believed to have been imprisoned extrajudicially, and practitioners in detention are subject to forced labor, psychiatric abuse, torture, and other coercive methods of thought reform at the hands of Chinese authorities.

Following the ban of Falun Gong in 1999, Chinese authorities sought to portray Falun Gong as a hierarchical and well-funded organization.

In 1974, The Royal Nepalese Army ( RNA ) was mobilized to disarm the Tibetan Khampas who had been using Nepalese soil to engage gureilla war against the invading the Chinese forces.

* April 5 – During the Cold Food Festival, Chinese Emperor Zhongzong of Tang has his chief ministers of court, sons-in-law, and high-ranking military officers engage in the festive game of tug of war within a palace of Chang ' an City.

Many Chinese moved to Ryukyu to serve the government or to engage in business during this period.

At a Chinese cultural celebration Roy thanks Falling Leaves for saving him and they engage in a passionate kiss.

During the mission his Chinese proved good enough to engage in diplomatic banter and he received a personal gift from the Qianlong Emperor.

In 1907, Britain and Russia acknowledged Chinese " suzerainty " over Tibet and both nations " engage not to enter into negotiations with Tibet except through the intermediary of the Chinese Government.

* May: Spurred by elevated tensions in Sino-American diplomatic relations, U. S. and Chinese hackers engage in skirmishes of Web defacements that many dub " The Sixth Cyberwar ".

More recently, manufacturers have started to engage Chinese manufacturers to produce very high quality wagons and locomotives.

Many Chinese moved to Ryūkyū to serve the government or engage in business during this period.

And with the fast development of Chinese festivals, more and more festival organizers engage Painkiller to be their booking agent and / or production team, e. g. Westlake Festival, Kama Love Festival and Yixian Music Festival.

Many tried to engage in trade throughout the Ming and the early parts of the Qing dynasties, but the Chinese simply did not require to trade with the West or any other foreign trader, being satisfied that their own products satisfied their needs.

* March 20, 1942 Chinese troops under Stilwell engage Japanese forces along the Sittang River in Burma.

Nowadays more and more overseas students come to China to study Chinese, The Centre for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language of SIE provides good learning conditions for overseas students to engage in advanced studies.

The policy shift was denounced by Chinese state media, which declared that the Americans should not " recklessly practice militarism ", nor engage in " war mongering ".

Among the Chinese, only Tan had the stature to engage with senior Malays such as Datuk Onn Jaafar and Tunku Abdul Rahman at a time of imminent constitutional changes in the country.

First generation shoulder-fired SAMs, such as the U. S. Redeye, early versions of the Soviet SA-7, and the Chinese HN-5, are considered “ tail-chase weapons ” as their seekers can only acquire and engage a high performance aircraft after it has passed the missile ’ s firing position.

The campaign was a series of routs and massacres of Chinese forces at Oirat hands, even though the imperial troops in the region are estimated to have numbered as many as 500, 000 and Esen Tayisi had brought only 20, 000 cavalry, expecting mainly to engage in traditional Oirat border raiding.

For the next two and one-half years, the 1st Marines continued to engage the North Koreans and Chinese Communists.

* John Kamm, for working to engage the Chinese Government in a results-oriented dialogue on human rights

Still, many Jurchen preferred not to work their land plots, but lease them to Chinese farmers, and engage in heavy drinking instead.

Every year thousands of people flock to the event to engage in fun, family activities while experiencing and celebrating the rich, vibrant Chinese culture present in Boston's Chinatown.

In 2011, The Guardian reported that prisoners in Chinese labor camps were forced to engage in gold farming for the benefit of prison authorities.