He also demanded that Kennedy take additional measures to increase international tension: specifically to crush the Cuban revolution, resume nuclear testing, resist more vigorously admission of China to its lawful seat in the United Nations, and postpone non-military programs at home ''.

Some Mahayana Buddhists in China, Japan and Vietnam specifically avoid eating strong-smelling plants, traditionally garlic, Allium chinense, asafoetida, shallot, and mountain leek, and refer to these as wǔ hūn ( 五荤, or ' Five Acrid and Strong-smelling Vegetables ') or wǔ xīn ( 五辛 or ' Five Spices ') as they tend to excite senses.

Further east, the military history of China, specifically northern China, held a long tradition of intense military exchange between Han Chinese infantry forces of the settled dynastic empires and the mounted nomads or " barbarians " of the north.

Meanwhile Baltimore Clippers still continued to be built, and were built specifically for the China opium trade running opium between India and China, a trade that only became unprofitable for American shipowners in 1849.

In 2007 China agreed to lend the DRC US $ 5bn for two major transport infrastructure projects to link mineral-rich Katanga, specifically Lubumbashi, by rail to an ocean port ( Matadi ) and by road to the Kisangani river port, and to improve its links to the transport network of Southern Africa in Zambia.

The latter is often called the Eastern order because Europeans are most familiar with the examples from East Asia, specifically China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam.

Today it is often called Chinese opera although this normally refers specifically to the more well-known forms such as Beijing Opera and Cantonese Opera, there have been many other forms of theatre in China.

Following the Revolution of 1911, the Republic of China adopted a largely Western-style legal code in the civil law tradition ( specifically German-influenced ).

The use of paper for such hygiene purposes has been recorded in China in the 6th century, with specifically manufactured toilet paper being mass produced in the 14th century.

Through organisations such as Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and Tablighi Jamaat its ideology began to spread and the graduates of Darul Uloom Deoband from countries like Saudi Arabia, China, Malaysia opened up thousands of madrasas throughout South Asia, specifically in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

A view advocated by He Xin is that the early dragon depicted a species of crocodile, specifically, Crocodylus porosus, the saltwater crocodile, which is the largest living reptile, and once ranged into China during ancient times.

In the Cairo Conference of 1943, the allied powers agreed to have Japan restore " all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese ", specifically listing " Formosa " and Penghu, to the Republic of China after the defeat of Japan.

Lychees are extensively grown in China, and also elsewhere in Brazil, South-East Asia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, southern Japan, and more recently in California, Hawaii, Texas, Florida, the wetter areas of eastern Australia and sub-tropical regions of South Africa, Israel and also in the states of Sinaloa and San Luis Potosí ( specifically, in La Huasteca ) in Mexico.

Aquaculture is continuing to develop rapidly throughout the Asia-Pacific region specifically in China with world holdings in Asia equal to 90 % of the total number of aquaculture farms and 80 % of its global value.

The sinologist Robert van Gulik concluded gibbons were widespread in Central and Southern China until at least the Song Dynasty, and furthermore, based on an analysis of references to primates in Chinese literature and their portrayal in Chinese paintings, the Chinese word yuán ( 猿 ) referred specifically to gibbons until they were extirpated throughout most of the country due to habitat destruction ( circa 14th century ).

He specifically chose to honor the historical ancestor of the Chinese people, the contemporary father of the Republic of China, and then his own direct ancestors in that precise order.

The book specifically mentions 163 were from China, 104 such families from Baekje ( Paekche in the older romanization ), 41 from Goguryeo, 6 from Silla, and 3 from Gaya.

The Tribunal specifically cited Koiso's decisive role in starting the wars against China and the Allies.

In China, incense usage reached its peak during the Song Dynasty with numerous buildings erected specifically for incense ceremonies.

In 1958, it became the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region ( GZAR ) of the People's Republic of China, a region with special privileges created specifically for the Zhuang people.

In China, the term Western Regions (; Uyghur: Qurighar ) referred to the regions west of the Yumen Pass, and more specifically the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang that had come under the Han Dynasty's control since 60 BC.

The People's Republic of China acquired SS-N-22 launchers and missiles ( specifically, the for-export 3M-80E Moskit variant ) with a 1999 – 2000 purchase of two Sovremenny destroyers from Russia. According to Russia, the PRC funded the development of the SS-N-22 version for the People's Liberation Army Navy ( PLAN ).

Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty ( 221 BC-207 BC ), owed much of his success in unifying China ( specifically southern China ) to naval power, although an official navy was not yet established ( see Medieval Asia section below ).

In China, human trafficking and serious cases of corruption are punished by the death penalty.

In some rare cases, such as with Ethiopia and Qing Dynasty China, the local governments were able to use the treaties to at least mitigate the impact of European colonization.

In some cases this can result in the channel bed eventually rising above the surrounding floodplains, penned in only by the levees around it ; an example is the Yellow River in China near the sea, where oceangoing ships appear to sail high above the plain on the elevated river.

The book was written in the same year as the attack on Pearl Harbor, while its hardcover publication coincided with the Communist victory in China ; with the PanAsians being both Chinese and Japanese, it had a direct topical relevance in both cases.

The first written account of using medicine and entomology to solve ( separate ) criminal cases is attributed to the book of Xi Yuan Lu ( translated as " Washing Away of Wrongs "), written in Song Dynasty China by Song Ci ( 宋慈, 1186 – 1249 ) in 1248.

At various times in this time period, Han Dynasty, Cao Wei Dynasty, Western Jin Dynasty, Tang Dynasty and some other minor kingdoms of China established control in parts of Manchuria and in some cases tributary relations with peoples in the area.

In certain cases, such as the Great Leap Forward in China ( which produced the largest famine in absolute numbers ), North Korea in the mid-1990s, or Zimbabwe in the early-2000s, famine can occur because of government policy.

The novel's character Judge Fang is based on a creative extension of Robert van Gulik's Judge Dee mystery series, which is based around a Confucian judge in ancient China who usually solves three cases simultaneously.

* The term border dispute applies only to the many cases where a limit territory bordering more than one state ( including an enclave in one state such as Nagorno Karabakh ) is claimed by two or more, not the very existence of a whole state challenged ( such as the Republic of China, which the People's Republic of China regards as a defunct and illegitimate entity, with its current jurisdiction of Taiwan claimed by the PRC as its 23rd province ).

Nevertheless, in both cases these rulers had claimed the Mandate of Heaven to assume the role of traditional emperors in order to rule over China proper.

The Emperor in most cases was the ruler of a united China, or must at least have claimed legitimate rule over all of China if he did not have de facto control.

For instance, in Western populations the H1069Q mutation ( replacement of a histidine by a glutamine at position 1069 in the protein ) is present in 37 – 63 % of cases, while in China this mutation is very uncommon and R778L ( arginine to leucine at 778 ) is found more often.

In other nations, he is formally a private citizen, although even in these cases, travel usually meets with strong objections from the People's Republic of China.

" However, according to Hearst interviewer Margaret Singer, a noted authority on prisoner of war and other victims including Maryknoll priests released from the People's Republic of China in the 1950s, this is not unusual in such cases.

The People's Republic of China has eradicated the pneumonic plague from most parts of the country, but still reports occasional cases in remote Western areas where the disease is carried by rats and the marmots that live across the Himalayan plateau.

Some " plinking " ammunition, as well as some military ammunition ( mainly from the former Soviet Union and China ) is made with steel cases because steel is less expensive than brass.

China reports approximately 10, 000 cases every year, and is therefore the country with the highest numbers of cases.

In the Guangdong province of the People's Republic of China, the Provincial Health Department said on December 17, 2010, that it had confirmed 429 cases of norovirus infection in the November 2010 outbreak in Conghua, Guangzhou, but no one died from it.

Out of 115, 000 reported cases in China from January to April, 773 were severe and 50 were fatal.

* The World Health Organization reporting between January to October 2011 ( 1, 340, 259 ) states the number of cases in China has dropped by approx, 300, 000 from 2010's ( 1, 654, 866 ) cases.

This paper, in particular, more than many recent comparative studies of China and the West, makes one of the strongest cases for comparisons that can contribute to our understanding of federalism in ancient China and ancient Rome and more generally China and the West.