Even so, it adds up to impossible odds, except that the question arises, On whose side would the Mainland Chinese army fight??

On 23 September 2011, Bille August announced that he has opened his studio in Hangzhou, China and taken a position as Tianpeng Media's Art Director, aiming to produce Chinese films for Tianpeng Media over the next few years.

On 27 November 2007 Cessna announced the new Cessna 162 would be made in the People's Republic of China by Shenyang Aircraft Corporation, which is a subsidiary of China Aviation Industry Corporation I ( AVIC I ), a Chinese government-owned consortium of aircraft manufacturers.

Some common vegetables used in Chinese cuisine include Chinese leaves, bok choy ( Chinese cabbage ), Chinese Spinach ( dao-mieu ), On Choy, Yu Choy, and gailan ( guy-lahn ).

On many occasions the Chinese studied nomadic cavalry tactics and applied the lessons in creating their own potent cavalry forces, while in others they simply recruited the tribal horsemen wholesale into their armies ; and in yet other cases nomadic empires proved eager to enlist Chinese infantry and engineering, as in the case of the Mongol Empire and its sinicized part, the Yuan Dynasty ( 1279 – 1368 ).

On 11 June, Beatty and 150 men from Barfleur landed as part of a force of 2, 400 defending Tientsin from 15, 000 Chinese troops plus Boxers.

On August 21, 1946, Humphrey Bogart was honored in a ceremony at Grauman's Chinese Theater to record his hand and footprints in cement.

On February 24, 2010, Reuters reported that the Chinese ministry of commerce had prevented the deal, although a ministry spokesperson denied rejecting the application, which had been stalled for eight months.

On February 1, 2010 it was announced that Sichuan and General Motors had agreed to extend the deadline until the end of February as Sichuan tried to get approval by the Chinese government.

On boarding a Chinese junk heading for Southeast Asia, Ibn Battuta was unfairly charged a hefty sum by the crew and lost much of what he had collected during his stay in China.

On the Chinese side, the pass is from Tashkurgan, from Kashgar and some from Urumqi.

On 12 September, the Chinese representative, Wellington Koo, appealed to the League for international intervention.

On September 28, 1954, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party re-established the Central Military Commission as the leader of the PLA and the people ’ s armed forces.

On 18 December 2008, Chinese authorities deployed People's Liberation Army Navy vessels to escort Chinese shipping in the Gulf of Aden.

On 28 January 1932, Japanese forces struck and the Chinese resisted, fighting to a standstill ; a ceasefire was brokered in May.

On February 18, 1943, she became the first Chinese national and second woman to address both houses of the U. S. Congress.

Many cloth shops located on Wing On Street, also known as Cloth Alley, were moved to the Western Market while Eu Yan Sang, a traditional Chinese medicine shop, was moved near the Stag Building to continue business.

On January 7, 1593, the Chinese relief forces under Li eventually recaptured Pyongyang, and surrounded Seoul, but Kobayakawa Takakage, Ukita Hideie, Tachibana Muneshige and Kikkawa Hiroie, won the Battle of Byeokjegwan in the suburbs of Seoul.

His best efforts in this line include The Gentleman in the Parlour, dealing with a journey through Burma, Siam, Cambodia and Vietnam, and On a Chinese Screen, a series of very brief vignettes which might almost be notes for short stories that were never written.

On 1 July 1832, Jardine, Matheson and Company, a partnership, between William Jardine, James Matheson as senior partners, and Hollingworth Magniac, Alexander Matheson, Jardine's nephew Andrew Johnstone, Matheson's nephew Hugh Matheson, John Abel Smith, and Henry Wright, as the first partners, was formed in China, taking the Chinese name ' Ewo ' ( 怡和 ) pronounced " Yee-Wo " and meaning ' Happy Harmony '.

On 18 June, the first of 161 soil erosion control camps was opened, in Clayton, Alabama.

The interrelationships between volume change behavior ( dilation, contraction, and consolidation ) and shearing behavior were all connected via the theory of plasticity using critical state soil mechanics by Roscoe, Schofield, and Wroth with the publication of " On the Yielding of Soils " in 1958.

On this visit to Europe he also warned that his intelligence had gathered information about a large-scale attack on U. S. soil being imminent.

On his palette he would grind out a colour collection of neutral grays, umbers, ochre and earthen greens that looked like they were pulled from the very soil he painted.

On the market are also prefab raised garden bed solutions which are made from long lasting polyethylene that is UV stabilized and food grade so it will not leach undesirable chemicals into the soil or deteriorate in the elements.

On Santorini, a deposit of white tephra thrown from the eruption is found lying up to thick, overlying the soil marking the ground level before the eruption, and forming a layer divided into three fairly distinct bands indicating different phases of the eruption.

On this visit to Europe he also warned that his intelligence had gathered information about a large-scale attack on U. S. soil being imminent.

On the other side of the basin is the village of Kimmeridge in England which gives it name to the Kimmeridgean soil that is located throughout Chablis.

On a volume basis a good quality soil is one that is 45 % minerals ( sand, silt, clay ), 25 % water, 25 % air, and 5 % organic material, both live and dead.

On a per hectare basis, millet grain produced per hectare can be two to four times higher with use of proper irrigation and sustainable soil supplements.

On receiving a favorable reply from the Holy See, Gediminas issued circular letters, dated 25 January 1325, to the principal Hansa towns, offering a free access into his domains to men of every order and profession from nobles and knights to tillers of the soil.

On drumlins with longer exposure ( e. g. in the Lake Ontario drumlin field in New York State ) soil development is more advanced, for example with the formation of clay-enriched Bt horizons.

On the other hand ; if soil has many air pockets, then the heat could be trapped underneath the topsoil, resulting in the increased possibility of frost at ground level

On 6 September, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked and blew up four emptied international airplanes on Jordanian soil, despite protests from Nasser who issued condemnations against the hijackers.

On July 31, the Kuomintang ( KMT ) had issued a statement that they were determined to turn every Chinese national and every piece of their soil into ash, rather than turn them over to the opponent.

On the other hand, on the great estates in Assyria and its subject provinces there were many serfs, mostly of subject race, settled captives, or quondam slaves ; tied to the soil they cultivated and sold with the estate, yet capable of possessing land and property of their own.

On the other hand, pedologists and geologists did not initially focus on the agronomic applications of the soil characteristics ( edaphic properties ) but upon its relation to the nature and history of landscapes.

On July 31, the Kuomintang had issued a statement that they were determined to turn every Chinese national and every piece of their soil into ash, rather than turn them over to the opponent.

On the prairie the plows bounced around and the soil stuck to them.

On 12 March, Lon Nol and Sirik Matak closed the port of Sihanoukville, through which weapons were being smuggled to the Viet Cong, to the North Vietnamese and issued an ultimatum: all PAVN ( North Vietnamese ) and NLF ( Viet Cong ) forces were to withdraw from Cambodian soil within 72 hours or face military action.

On 2 August 1945, Princess Juliana was reunited with her family on Dutch soil.

On one of these visits Obatala, the King of White Clothes, took to the stage equipped with a mollusk that held in its shell some form of soil ; two winged beasts and some cloth like material.

On the sides of the steep river valleys that punctuate the uplands the terrain changes to exposed rock with collected pockets of soil.

On exposed areas where continuous rain washes away soil, a low heathland is the dominant vegetation.

On the prairie, the plows bounced around and the soil stuck to them.