[...] ( However ,) China's cement export peaked in 1994 with 11 million tonnes shipped out and has been in steady decline ever since.

However, attempts made in closed-door sessions at the Fourth Plenary Session of the 17th Communist Party of China's Central Committee in September 2009 to grapple with these problems produced inconclusive results, although a directive which requires disclosure of investments and property holdings by party and governmental officials was passed.

However, during the years when Mao was China's " Great Helmsman ", a range of positive changes also came to China.

However, China's first official standing navy was not established until the Southern Song Dynasty in the 12th century, a time when gunpowder was a revolutionary new application to warfare.

However, its per capita GDP in 2011 remains very low at THB155, 926 ( USD5, 394 ) – slightly lower than China's per capita GDP in 2011.

However, in February 1979, following China's limited invasion of Vietnam, Hanoi complained that from 1957 onward China had provoked numerous border incidents as part of its anti-Vietnam policy and expansionist designs in Southeast Asia.

However, extensive research into China's traditional legal system has caused attitudes to become more favorable in the late-20th and early 21st centuries.

However, frequent devastating floods and course changes produced by the continual elevation of the river bed, sometimes above the level of its surrounding fields has also earned it the unenviable names " China's Sorrow " and " Scourge of the Sons of Han.

However, in December 2005, China's Deputy Health Minister acknowledged that the practice of removing organs from executed prisoners for transplant was widespread – as many as 95 % of all organ transplants in China derived from executions, and he promised steps to prevent abuse.

However, it was China's closest neighboring states which would have the greatest impact on its domestic and foreign policy.

However, it is not accurate to attribute China's subsequent age of warlordism as a personal preference, since in his career as a military reformer he had attempted to forge a modern army based on the Japanese model.

However, official PRC media outlets and officials often refer to Taiwan as " China's Taiwan Province " or simply " Taiwan, China ", and pressure international organizations to use the term.

However, the war was very costly to the Chinese side, as more than just " volunteers " were mobilized, and because of the lack of experience in modern warfare and the lack of modern military technology, China's casualties vastly outnumbered that of the United Nations.

However, due to China's continued rapid economic growth ( in 2010 it became the world's second largest economy ), combined with the respectable international position they hold within political spheres and the power that the Chinese Government exerts over their people ( consisting of the largest population in the world ), there is debate over whether China is now a superpower or a possible candidate in the future.

However, the Republic of China government had refused to open direct links out of concern for the island's security and in fear that by doing so it would have to recognize the People's Republic of China's one-China policy.

However, this seems to take on a different light in considering the somewhat paradoxical situation that after the Song Dynasty, China's ruling dynasties were often of Inner Asia ethnicities, such as Qidan, Ruzhen, and Mongol of the Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties: according to historian John King Fairbank: the " influence on China of the great fact of alien conquest under the Liao-Jin-Yuan dynasties is just beginning to be explored.

However, it is also nature of work makes China's economic geography of pure theoretical research relatively weak.

However, following the establishment of the Republic of China in 1911, a conscious effort was made to rein in these tendencies so as to be inclusive of China's other ethnicities and to avoid separatist movements that might yield Qing-held territory outside of China proper.

However, he was constrained by orders from Beijing not to allow his ships to cross the line of the Yalu River, as the imperial authorities were reluctant to risk China's most modern western vessels in combat.

However, Li Yuanhong and Duan Qirui had many conflicts, the most glaring of which was over China's entry into World War I.

However, China's attempts to reach out to countries through " ping pong diplomacy " were not always successful, such as when the All Indonesia Table Tennis Association ( PTMSI ) refused China's invitation in October 1971, claiming that accepting the PRC's offer would improve the PRC's reputation.

However, it led to a great upsurge in interest in cosmetic surgery among China's nouveau riche.

However, along the long border with its neighbour Colombia, relations have been strained mainly due to a cross-border raid by Colombian forces on FARC guerrillas.

However, since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Egypt's relations with Iran have been mostly strained.

However, relations with Moscow have remained strained primarily because Russia decided not to ratify the border treaty it had signed with Estonia in 1999.

However, relations were strained for a time following the 26 June 1995 assassination attempt against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as he was leaving the OAU summit meeting in Addis Ababa.

However, the war increased tensions and relations between ethnic Macedonians and Albanian Macedonians became strained.

However, relations were strained for a time following the 26 June 1995 assassination attempt against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak as he was leaving the OAU summit meeting in Addis Ababa.

However, during the Mughal rule of India ( 1556 – 1707 ), the emerging religion had strained relations with the ruling Mughals.

However, the 1978 crackdown on Iraqi Communists and a shift of trade toward the West strained Iraqi relations with the Soviet Union ; Iraq then took on a more Western orientation until the Gulf War in 1991.

However, this decentralized system became strained as the familial relationship between Zhou Kings and regional rulers thinned over generations and peripheral territories developed local power and prestige on par with that of the Zhou.

However, the city had poor housing conditions and strained public works.

( However, relations between CSG and St. Charles are still described as strained.

However, the deliberately tenuous nature of the partnership was strained by its success, and the group imploded after their tour in the summer of 1970.

However, his biographer Robert Lacey describes Lansky's financially strained circumstances in the last two decades of his life and his inability to pay for health care for his relatives.

However, links with Britain became strained over Cyprus, where the majority Greek population favored union with Greece, which Britain, as the colonial power, would not endorse.

However, he had a strained relationship with the incumbent government, led by Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave of Fine Gael.

However, sharp drops in property valuations resulting from the 2009 mortgage crisis have led to strained state and local finances, potentially leading to municipal defaults.

However, the partnership became strained due to the two men's stubbornness-while Deere wished to sell to customers outside Grand Detour, Andrus opposed a proposed railroad through Grand Detour-and Deere's distrust of Andrus ' accounting practices.

However if crabapples are stewed and the pulp is carefully strained and mixed with an equal volume of sugar ( a necessary ingredient for the mix to become gelatinous ) then boiled, their juice can be made into a ruby-coloured crabapple jelly.

However, the relationship between the two brothers had become strained throughout 2009, leading eventually to a last-minute cancellation of an Oasis concert scheduled to take place on 28 August 2009 in Paris, due to an " altercation within the group.

However, when rumors surfaced that Saddam had married another woman, and that his family life was now strained, more pictures and videos appeared in the Iraqi media of Saddam and Sajida, as well as them with their children.

However, the relationship between Spare and his wife was strained ; unlike him, she was " unintellectual and materialistic ", and disliked many of his friends, particularly the younger males, asking him to cease his association with them.

However, the marriage was often strained ; her husband was often slighted by members of the Court and may well have married to improve his social status.

However, there were some reports that Caray and Finley did, in fact, work well with each other and that Caray's strained relationship with the A's came from longtime A's announcer Monte Moore ; Caray was loose and free-wheeling while Moore was more conservative.

However, though Dark and Krad hate one another, Hiwatari and Daisuke maintain a strained but genuine friendship, despite Dark's constant moaning.