Forty-seven years after the initial freeze, Costa Rican President Óscar Arias Sánchez announced on 18 March 2009 that normal relations were to be re-established, saying, " If we have been able to turn the page with regimes as profoundly different to our reality as occurred with the USSR or, more recently, with the Republic of China, how would we not do it with a country that is geographically and culturally much nearer to Costa Rica?

He is still seeking greater autonomy from China, although Dolma Gyari, deputy speaker of the parliament-in-exile has stated " If the middle path fails in the short term, we will be forced to opt for complete independence or selfdetermination as per the UN charter ".

In China ( also known as " If You Were There ") ( 1985 )

If some supporters articulate that they agree to the independence of Taiwan, they may either be referring to the notion of formally creating an independent Republic of Taiwan, or to the notion that Taiwan is synonymous with the current Republic of China and already is independent, which is against the People's Republic of China's claim.

If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics.

If the latter argument is accepted, then the Republic of China may have ceased to be a state post-1971 as a matter of international law (" de jure "), yet continued to otherwise function as the state that it previously was recognised as (" de facto ").

If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics.

If China Attacks Taiwan: Military Strategy, Politics and Economics.

If China attacks India it is our firm resolve to fight for our freedom.

: If this sentence is true, then Germany borders China.

The following analysis is used to show that the sentence " If this sentence is true, then Germany borders China " is itself true.

The quoted sentence is of the form " If A then B " where A refers to the sentence itself and B refers to " Germany borders China ".

If this happens, he believes that China would be secure enough on the mainland to give added attention to shaping events to its favour in far flung areas.

Lu Xun, a renowned Chinese author in the 20th century, stated that, " If Chinese characters are not destroyed, then China will die.

If Hua had been successful in his efforts to achieve supreme power, Li would have become one of the most powerful officials in China, but Li's political career stalled when Deng Xiaoping eclipsed Hua as China's " Paramount leader ".

If China did not get support from America they could go to another country that would not be so strict on their treatment of people, and they could use that country to gain access to the WTO.

If the word " district " is encountered in the context of ancient Chinese history, then the word is a translation for xian, another type of administrative division in China.

If you stand in San Francisco and look out over the ocean, you are looking at China and Russia-most certainly the East.

If one orders " 牛肉湯麵 " or " beef soup noodles " in a restaurant in Taiwan, Mainland China, or Hong Kong, they might be given a very inexpensive bowl of noodles in only beef broth but no beef.

If successful, Hideyoshi intended to then move against China.

For example, the Lee Teng-hui criticized President Chen Shui-bian for equating the " Republic of China " with " Taiwan " saying " If we continue to use the " Republic of China " as the nation's title, China may view our nation ( as a rebellion group )... Taiwan itself is a nation " while campaigning for a TSU candidate in danger of losing the race to five other DPP candidates.

Before the 2004 European championship Luís Figo, criticized Deco's inclusion and said " If you're born Chinese, well, you have to play for China.

If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.

If the bluff failed and they ran into trouble, Brannon had told the others, they would withdraw -- and he would come after his son another time.

If he wondered whether the attackers would allow him to pull away unmolested, he had his answer a moment later.

If the Union conceded this to them, the same right must be conceded to each remaining state whenever it saw fit to secede: This would destroy the federal balance between it and the states, and in the end sacrifice to the sovereignty of the states all the liberty the citizens had gained by their Union.

If any had escaped expulsion by hiding, they certainly would not frequent the market-place.

If a child had a single drop of Negro blood, he would revert to the ancestral line which, except as slaves under a superior race, had not made one step of progress in 3,000 years.

If he had been `` liquidated '' in some way, he would have become a martyr, a rallying point for people who shared his ideas.

If in any one calculation Ptolemy had had to invoke 83 epicycles all at once, while Copernicus never required more than one third this number, then ( in the sense obvious to Margenau ) Ptolemaic astronomy would be simpler than Copernican.

If you had screamed right there in the street where we stood, I could not have felt more fear.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If Hammarskjold had not wanted the list disposed of in this manner, and if Bang-Jensen had not wanted it -- who had ordered it??

If Gorton wanted peace and quiet for his complicated meditations this is where he should have had it.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

If he had had a son, he would tell him, `` Gather ye rosebuds while ye may This same flower that smiles today tomorrow will be dying ''.

If he had any worries, it was only the small ones, about Mother in New York, and his daughter Edwina and what she might be doing at this hour, with her Aunt Asia, in Philadelphia.

If we had, then one of us would have had to go instead.

If he had income other than wages subject to withholding, he may be required to file Form 1040.

If our SAC bombers were, today, capable of surviving a surprise missile attack and because of infinite dispersion or long endurance had the capability to strike at Russia again, and again, and again, those bombers would unquestionably assure our military dominance.