Meanwhile the Thai government, under the pro-Japanese leadership of Field Marshal Plaek Phibunsongkhram, took advantage of its position and invaded Cambodia's western provinces.

Meanwhile, in what are now the northwestern Chinese provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, and Ningxia, there emerged a Western Xia Dynasty from 1032 to 1227, established by Tangut tribes.

Meanwhile, in the East, Marcus Jotapianus led another uprising in response to the oppressive rule of Priscus and the excessive taxation of the Eastern provinces.

Meanwhile, Niger was busy securing the support of all of the governors in the Asiatic provinces, including the esteemed proconsul of Asia, Asellius Aemilianus, who had occupied Byzantium in Niger ’ s name.

Meanwhile, the legions stationed in the African province of Egypt and the Middle East provinces of Iudaea ( Judea / Palestine ) and Syria had acclaimed Vespasian as emperor.

Meanwhile, he began to exercise more imperial power, and began to put all other provinces south of the Huai River under his own control — and, for the next few years, under the command of Wang Dun and other generals such as Tao Kan and Zhou Fang ( 周訪 ), the agrarian rebels resisting Jin rule in Jing ( 荊州, modern Hubei ) and Xiang ( 湘州, modern Hunan ) Provinces were gradually subjugated.

Meanwhile, separatist Tamil rebels in the north and eastern provinces began an insurgency for a separate state for Tamils.

Meanwhile the Red Wing, assisted by the human nation of Lemish, and the hobgoblins of Throtl, attacked through the Throtl Gap, overruning the Solamnic provinces of Gaarlund and Heartlund, and capturing the key cities of Solanthus and Thelgaard.

Meanwhile, much of the rest of the Western provinces were conquered by waves of Germanic invasions, most of them being disconnected politically from the East altogether and continuing a slow decline.

Meanwhile some of those whose ancestors came to the Russian service from abroad individually and who settled themselves in Moscow and core Russian provinces, sooner or later found it easier to adjust their names to the local speaking mode.

Meanwhile, the legions stationed in the Middle East provinces of Judaea and Syria had acclaimed Vespasian as emperor.

Meanwhile, Liu Yao, who was by imperial decree the governor of Yang Province ( 揚州 ; covering present-day southern Jiangsu, southern Anhui, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian ), occupied Qu ' e as the regional seat Shouchun ( 壽春 ; present-day Shou County, Anhui ) was already occupied by Yuan Shu.

Meanwhile, Bai's father uses his influence to get Bai posted to Guangdong, and after a sorrowful farewell between himself and Zhuli, he arrives at his new post and instantly falls in love with Luohua.

Meanwhile, the Qing government rewarded Liu Yongfu for his services in the Sino-French War with a minor military appointment in Guangdong province.

Meanwhile, Lin Shihong the Emperor of Chu, who had one point controlled modern Jiangxi and Guangdong, had died, and his followers scattered.

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.

" Meanwhile Pakistan has claimed almost all of the state except for the portion of the state Pakistan ceded to China.

Meanwhile, the wars empowered several nations, including the UK, U. S., Russia, China and Japan, to exert a strong influence over many world affairs.

Meanwhile, the Roman Republic is embroiled in war against the Samnites, the Mauryan Empire continues to thrive in Ancient India, and the Kingdom of Qin in Ancient China, the one which in the future will conquer its adversaries and unite China, begins to emerge as a significant power during the Warring States Period.

Meanwhile, North China was ruled by the Sixteen Kingdoms, many of which were founded by the Wu Hu.

Meanwhile, China had no ability to ferry troops across the 100-mile wide Taiwan Strait and conquer the island.

Meanwhile, US president Richard Nixon had taken office in 1969 and announced his willingness to restore ties with China.

Meanwhile, Universal also outsourced its die casting capabilities in Southern China.

Meanwhile, Hu kept a tight lid on China politically, cracking down on social disturbances, ethnic minority protests, and dissident figures.

Meanwhile, Joseph Stalin and his Soviet Union in the 1920s and early of 1930s stood by Japan ’ s invasion of China at first, for they too had also invaded Manchuria and waged a war against Zhang and his father.

Meanwhile, South Jiangsu continued to be an important center of trade in China ; some historians see in the flourishing textiles industry at the time incipient industrialization and capitalism, a trend that was however aborted, several centuries before similar trends took hold in the West.

Meanwhile, American economic support to China began to increase.

Meanwhile, China " accidentally " shoots down a Taiwanese airliner.

Meanwhile, Pei-Pei, who was tricked into believing she was freely escaping her arranged marriage in China, finds out she has been kidnapped by an agent of Lo Fong, who ran away from the Forbidden City and was viewed as a traitor by the Chinese.

Meanwhile many OIC member states, as well as Russia, China, India, and Brazil, have congratulated Ahmadinejad on his victory.

Meanwhile in China itself, people usually referred to their nation state based on the name of the ruling dynasty, e. g. Da Ming Guo (" the state of the Great Ming "), or as the " Middle Kingdom " ( Zhongguo 中國 ); see also Names of China for details.

Meanwhile, the ROC opposes the use of the designation " Taiwan, China " because it would imply the ROC's status is subordinate to the PRC.

Meanwhile, the Soviet Union supplied fighter and bomber squadrons to China, but these units were mostly withdrawn by the summer of 1940.

Meanwhile northern China was infiltrated politically by Japanese politicians in Manchukuo using facilities such as Wei Huang Gong.

Meanwhile, in the Republic of China ( Taiwan ), GR survived until the 1970s as a pronunciation aid in monolingual dictionaries such as Gwoyeu Tsyrdean Cídiǎn and Tsyrhuey, but was officially replaced in 1986 by a modified form known as MPS II.

Meanwhile, Chinese troops too had made incursions into Indian-held territory and tensions between the two reached a new high when Indian forces discovered a road constructed by China in Aksai Chin.

Meanwhile, there appears to be enough money in the road's reserve fund to cover the interest deficiency for eight more years.

Meanwhile, on the Upper Rhine, Villars had been forced onto the defensive as battalion after battalion had been sent north to bolster collapsing French forces in Flanders ; there was now no possibility of his undertaking the re-capture of Landau.

:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

Meanwhile there is below-average precipitation in the southwestern and southeastern states.

Meanwhile, there was a growing international boycott of Faroese produce over the grindadráp ( whaling ) issue.

Within the United States Graffiti Artists such as Mike Giant, Pursue, Rime, Noah and countless others have made careers in skateboard, apparel and shoe design for companies such as DC Shoes, Adidas, Rebel8 Osiris or Circa Meanwhile there are many others such as DZINE, Daze, Blade, The Mac that have made the switch to gallery artists often times not even using their initial medium, spray paint.

Meanwhile there is definite evidence of grimoires being used by certain, particularly Gnostic sects of early Christianity ; in the Book of Enoch found within the Dead Sea Scrolls for instance, there is various information on astrology and the angels.

Meanwhile, in the south of Egypt, there was a long-standing revolt that had begun during the reign of Ptolemy IV, led by Horwennefer and by his successor Ankhwennefer.

Meanwhile, on top of the problems recognized in supply chain management, there will be many more challenges when the scope of supply chains is global.

Meanwhile in Europe itself there was a rise of nationalism, with nations such as Greece, Hungary, Poland and Bulgaria seeking or winning their independence.

Meanwhile, there were several years of dispute between the Methodist ministers, Lima, and contending cities across the state, over proposals to move Genesee College to Syracuse.

Meanwhile, Sweden and Denmark, both Lutheran kingdoms, sought to assist the Protestant cause in the Empire, and wanted to gain political and economic influence there as well.

Meanwhile war had resumed in Britannia, where Gnaeus Julius Agricola pushed further into Caledonia and managed to establish several forts there.

Meanwhile, Hortensio has married a rich widow, and so in the final scene of the play there are three newly married couples at Baptista's banquet ; Bianca and Lucentio, the widow and Hortensio, and Katherina and Petruchio.

Meanwhile, Magnus ' uncle Harald Hardrada had returned to Norway from the east and contested his rule there, while Sweyn was still a threat in Denmark ; Harald allied himself with Sweyn.

Meanwhile, on the South Aisle there is a discontinuous ridge rib that puts an emphasis on each separate bay.

Meanwhile, Sullivan wakes up in the rail yard of another city, with no memory of who he is or how he got there.

Meanwhile, he also began to look into the prehistory of Australia, coming to the opinion that there was much for archaeologists to study in this field, and he gave several lectures to various archaeological and leftist groups on this and other topics.

Meanwhile there exist many different methods, partly extensions of the Swadesh method, now more and more under the biological assumptions of replacements in genes.

Meanwhile, the Bene Gesserit have terraformed Chapterhouse into a desert planet like Rakis, and bring a single sandworm there to begin a new spice cycle.

Lee closed with " Meanwhile, whenever there is a failure of economic, social and educational policies, you come back and say, oh, these wicked Chinese, Indian and others opposing Malay rights.