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Chinese and snipers
Upon reaching Koto-ri, Colonel Lewis " Chesty " Puller, the 1st Marine Regimental commander there, gave Page responsibility for extending the airstrip 1, 000 yards beyond his perimeter into no man's land, an area covered by Chinese snipers.

Chinese and targeted
Much of the rioting targeted Chinese Indonesians.
The Khmer Rouge explicitly targeted the Chinese, Vietnamese, and even their partially Khmer offspring for extinction ; although the Cham Muslims received disfavorable treatment, they were by contrast encouraged to " mix flesh and blood ", or intermarry and assimilate.
At this point the Chinese portion of Shanghai was controlled by Sun Chuanfang, one of the militarists targeted by the North Expedition.
After the U. S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which killed three journalists and led to a diplomatic row between the U. S. and People ’ s Republic of China, NATO and various Western media claimed the building might have been targeted because the office of the Chinese military attaché was being used by Arkan to communicate and transmit messages to his paramilitary group, the Tigers, in Kosovo.
The New York Times reported that " a primary goal of the attackers was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, but that the attack also targeted 20 other large companies in the finance, technology, media and chemical sectors.
However, Lim's tactics against the communists alienated a large part of the Singaporean Chinese electorate, the demographic targeted most during the anti-communist campaign.
The Chinese community was also targeted because the perceived link to opium dens.
In 1998, preceding the fall of Suharto's 32-year presidency, large riots targeted the Chinese Indonesians in another series of pogroms.
Shopkeepers of Chinese descent in particular are often targeted by armed robbers, their cash registers emptied and some products stolen.
While some projects have targeted the Chinese community, the development of luxury housing has increased Chinatown's economic and cultural diversity.
Very often, criminals many of Hispanic and Blacks descents in the Lower East Side area targeted Chinese immigrants walking by to rob and harass them.
* The Jakarta Riots of May 1998 were pogroms targeted against ethnic Chinese in Indonesia.
Many ethnic Chinese living in Vietnam, who felt that the government's policies directly targeted them, also became " boat people.
This system of values is sometimes considered as the proper culture of the Chinese ; consequently, for centuries it has targeted religious tendencies.
He also spoke Cantonese in a Ford Commercial targeted at North American Chinese consumers.
More recently, the Chinese community which controls many businesses in French Polynesia has been targeted in verbal attacks by the newly allied Gaston Flosse and Oscar Temaru in their political fight against Gaston Tong Sang, whose Chinese origins they emphasize in contrast with their Polynesian origins, despite the fact that they both have mixed origins ( European and Polynesian for Flosse ; Polynesian and Chinese for Temaru ).
China is also targeted as a very promising development with the announcement, in October 2007, of 13 stores to be opened by the Chinese company, Beijing Hualian Group, a leading chain of supermarkets, on the model of the large store it opened in a mall in Beijing near the Olympic Stadium.
The Chinese Government has targeted Xidan in its 11th Five Year Plan, which is scheduled to conclude by 2010, with a stated mission of improving the area's environment, as well as diversifying the genre of stores that open in the area.
The American Chinese Exclusion Act was an immigration policy instituted in May 1882 designed initially to keep Chinese laborers from immigrating to the US, although in practice it targeted all but a select handful of Chinese elites from coming to America.

Chinese and American
administrative organization and delicate diplomatic relations with Top Brass -- British, American and Chinese ; ;
American Chinese cuisine refers to the style of food served by many Chinese restaurants in the United States.
This type of cooking typically caters to American styles and differs significantly from traditional Chinese cuisine.
They developed American Chinese cuisine when they modified their food to suit a more American palate.
American Chinese food typically treats vegetables as a side dish or garnish while cuisines of China emphasize vegetables.
American Chinese cuisine often uses ingredients not native and very rarely used in China.
One such example is the common use of western broccoli ( xīlán, 西蘭 ) instead of Chinese broccoli ( jie lan, 芥蘭 jièlán ) in American Chinese cuisine.
Tomato-based sauces can be found in some American Chinese dishes such as the " beef and tomato ".
Even more divergent are American stir-fry dishes inspired by Chinese food, that may contain brown rice instead of white, or those with grated cheese ; milk products are almost always absent from traditional Chinese food.
Ming Tsai, the owner of the Blue Ginger restaurant in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said that American Chinese restaurants typically try to have food representing 3-5 regions of China at one time, have chop suey, or have " fried vegetables and some protein in a thick sauce ," " eight different sweet and sour dishes ," or " a whole page of 20 different chow meins or fried rice dishes.
Most American Chinese establishments cater to non-Chinese customers with menus written in English or containing pictures.
* Egg roll – While native Chinese spring rolls have a thin crispy skin with mushrooms, bamboo, and other vegetables inside, the Westernized version ( specifically the version found in such American Northeast metro areas as Boston and New York ) uses a thick, fried skin stuffed with cabbage and usually bits of meat or seafood ( such as pork or shrimp ), but no egg.
* Fried rice – Fried rice dishes are popular offerings in American Chinese food due to the speed and ease of preparation and their appeal to American tastes.
* Moo shu pork – The native Chinese version uses more typically Chinese ingredients ( including wood ear fungi and daylily buds ) and thin flour pancakes while the American version uses vegetables more familiar to Americans and thicker pancakes.
* Wonton soup – In most American Chinese restaurants, only wonton dumplings in broth are served, while native Chinese versions may come with noodles.
* Beijing beef – This dish exists in native Chinese form, but using gai-lan ( Chinese broccoli ) rather than American broccoli.
Since the early 1990s, many American Chinese restaurants influenced by California cuisine have opened in San Francisco and the Bay Area.

Chinese and consul
American consul James W. Davidson described in his 1903 book, The Island of Formosa, how the Chinese in Taiwan ate and traded in the flesh of Taiwanese aboriginals.
American consul James W. Davidson described in The Island of Formosa ( 1903 ) how the Han Chinese in Taiwan ate and traded in their aboriginal victims ' flesh, a practice also mentioned by Owen Rutter in Through Formosa ( 1923 ), whose account bears some similarities to Davidson's.
Standardized testing was introduced into Europe in the early 19th century, modeled on the Chinese mandarin examinations, through the advocacy of British colonial administrators, the most " persistent " of which was Britain's consul in Guangzhou, China, Thomas Taylor Meadows.
The Chinese forces stormed the consulates of America, Britain, and Japan, looting nearly every foreign property and almost assassinating the Japanese consul.
However, the Chinese consul was accidentally killed by the Chinese guards shooting at Bauer.
Despite this however, Chongjin is estimated to have a 24 per cent share of the DPRK's foreign trade and is home to a resident Chinese consul who serves Chinese Traders operating in the north east of the country.
The tight smile of the Bulgarian emissary, the averted glance of the Chinese consul.
In contrast to the usual official Chinese condemnation of Wong's film roles, the Chinese consul to Los Angeles gave his approval to the final scripts of two of these films, Daughter of Shanghai ( 1937 ) and King of Chinatown ( 1939 ).
To further strengthen the revolution, Simoun has Quiroga, a Chinese man hoping to be appointed consul to the Philippines, smuggle weapons into the country using Quiroga ’ s bazaar as a front.
* Quiroga-A Chinese businessman who dreamed of being a consul for his country in the Philippines.
Joseph de Guignes ' son, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes ( 1759-1845 ) learned Chinese from his father ; and then the son went as consul to Canton ( Guangzhou ), where he spent seventeen years.
The Soviet officials were, at first, willing to assist him but the Chinese ones were not, and in the course of the negotiations that surrounded his passage, Maclean discovered that the Soviets exercised some influence over at least the consul if not the provincial government of their neighbours.
Bisson passed to Bernstein copies of four documents: ( a ) his own report for BEW with his views on working out a plan for shipment of American troops to China ; ( b ) a report by the Chinese embassy in Washington to its government in China ; ( c ) a brief BEW report of April 1943 on a general evaluation of the forces of the sides on the Soviet-German front ; and ( d ) a report by the American consul in Vladivostok.
Logan eventually became wary of Palmer's actions, particularly the authorization of government agents infiltrating the Chinese consulate in Los Angeles, which led to the accidental death of the Chinese consul.
This culminated in his posting as the consul for political affairs in the Chinese consulate in Sydney, Australia.
At first the Chinese governor of Shanghai refused to allow the British Consul, Captain Sir George Balfour, a place to hold consul.
He then obtained a position with the consular service and over the next twelve years held posts in Brazil, Japan, Siberia, Manchuria, and China ; at Hankow ( 1911 – 1914 ) he performed with distinction as consul general during the Chinese revolution.

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