However, Vohor did so without consultations with his cabinet and the PRC Foreign Ministry, quoting the Vanuatu Foreign Minister, denied ties with the ROC had been established.

After Lee had decided to visit Cornell, U. S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher assured PRC Foreign Minister Qian Qichen that a visa for Lee would be " inconsistent with U. S .' s unofficial relationship Taiwan.

President Truman later ordered John Foster Dulles, then Foreign Policy Advisor to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, to carry out his decision on neutralizing Taiwan in drafting the Treaty of Peace with Japan of 1951 which excluded the participation of both the ROC and PRC.

In the 1980s, Larry Wu-Tai Chin ( Jin Wudai ), a translator for the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, was arrested and charged with espionage in the service of the PRC.

Since he is both PRC citizen, British National ( Overseas ), as well as a permanent resident of Singapore, some organisations, like the Hong Kong Journalists ' Association and Reporters without borders, urged the British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to intervene.

Only on July 1, 1992, in contrast, did the PRC government open her legal services market to foreign law firms when the Ministry of Justice issued the Provisional Regulation of Establishment of Offices by Foreign Law Firms regulation.

Zhou Nan, the then PRC Deputy Foreign Minister and leader of the negotiation team, and Sir Richard Evans, British Ambassador to Beijing and leader of the team, signed respectively on behalf of the two governments.

A severe diplomatic row broke out between the PRC and Singapore when Lee Hsien Loong visited Taiwan a month before being sworn-in as the Prime Minister of Singapore on 12 August 2004.

At one point Prime Minister Vohor punched the PRC ambassador when approached to explain why the flag of the Republic of China was flying over the hotel where the Taiwanese representative was posted.

The PRC Health Minister has apologized for early delays in reporting and has been holding regular press conferences.

The PRC Health Minister also claimed that the disease has been under control in most parts of mainland China.

In September, Soviet Minister Alexei Kosygin secretly visited Beijing to speak with Premier Zhou Enlai, and in October, the PRC and the USSR began discussing border-demarcation.

The PRC joined the Prodi II Cabinet, which included Paolo Ferrero, a long-time member of the party, as Minister of Social Solidarity.

On 21 April 1996, The Olive Tree won 1996 general election in alliance with the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ), making Romano Prodi Prime Minister of Italy.

* Yuan Guiren ( born 1950 ): academic, and Minister of Education in the PRC.

He was criticized by the Financial Minister of PRC.

In light of the increasing openness of the PRC government and economic reforms on the mainland, then-British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sought the PRC's agreement to a continued British presence in the territory.

During the reception of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath during his sixth visit to the PRC, Deng Xiaoping commented quite clearly on the impossibility of exchanging sovereignty for administration, declaring an ultimatum: the British government must modify or give up its position or the PRC will announce its resolution of the issue of Hong Kong sovereignty unilaterally.

The phrase Asian Century arose in the mid to late 1980s, and is attributed to a 1988 meeting with People's Republic of China ( PRC ) leader Deng Xiaoping and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov encouraged the idea of a triple alliance between Russia, the PRC and India first formulated by Indian strategist Madhav Das Nalapat in 1983, and supported the idea of a multipolar world.

*" India's power is infinite " PRC Commerce Minister Bo Xilai the future growth and cooperation of India and mainland China, 2006

One increasing trend is to practise the PRC anthem and teach the knowledge of the PRC flag, with the British anthem and flag emphasised only in historical context.

The PRC has an extensive missile build-up near Taiwan and passed an Anti-Secession Law in 2005 threatening to use force.

The PRC passed an Anti-Secession Law shortly before Lien's trip.

The revised position of the PRC was made clear in the Anti-Secession Law of 2005, which although stating that there is one China whose sovereignty is indivisible, does not explicitly identify this China with the PRC.

( Almost all PRC laws have a suffix ( prefix in Chinese grammar ) " of the People's Republic of China " in their official names, but the Anti-Secession Law is an exception.

In March 2005, the PRC passed an Anti-Secession Law which authorized the use of force to prevent a " serious incident " that breaks the One China policy, but which at the same time did not identify one China with the People's Republic and offered to pursue political solutions.

The PRC policy toward Taiwan is since 2005 determined by the Anti-Secession Law, which states that Taiwan should be united with mainland China, preferably by peaceful means, but in case Taiwan should formally declare independence or refuse to submit, the PRC will use force.

* after the election, the PRC announced that it would pass an Anti-Secession Law.

Although the PRC's official English translation of the law is the Anti-Secession Law, the Mainland Affairs Council on Taiwan has consistently translated it as Anti-Separation law as secession implies that Taiwan is a part of the PRC.

Shortly after this proposal, the PRC enacted the Anti-Secession Law.

In the Anti-Secession Law passed in 2005, the PRC government for the first time authoritatively committed to negotiations on the basis of equal status between the two sides, and further refrained from imposing the " one China " policy as a precondition for talks.

The Basic Law, Hong Kong's constitutional document, was approved in March 1990 by National People's Congress of the PRC.

It should also be noted that the wording of the Basic Law on the term of the Chief Executive is substantially different from the articles in the PRC constitution concerning the length of term of the president, premier, etc.

Under the Basic Law of Hong Kong, its diplomatic relations and defence are the responsibility of the Central People's Government of the PRC.

Of particular relevance to the second principle set out above, was the enactment of the Administrative Permission Law of the PRC ( APL ) on 27 August 2003, effective from July 2004.

This is consistent with the hierarchy of laws and regulations provided under the Legislative Law of the PRC.

Article 49 of the PRC Law on Protection of Consumer's Rights and Interests enacted on October 31, 1993 provides the rule that any consumer is entitled to a recovery of double the purchase price of products or service from the seller or service provider against their defraud.

Article 96 of the PRC Law on Food Safety adopted on February 28, 2009 raises the punitive damages to ten times the purchase price additional to the compensatory damages that the victim has already claimed from the producer or seller for food with poor quality not compliant to food safety standards.

Application of the punitive damage rule is further expanded with the enactment of the PRC Law on Tort Liability effective as of July 1, 2010.

The China Fisheries Law Enforcement Command ( FLEC )( Chinese: 中国渔政 ), an organ of the Fisheries Management Bureau under the PRC Ministry of Agriculture, is responsible for the enforcement of laws concerning fishing and maritime resources within PRC ’ s territorial waters and exclusive economic zones ( EEZ ).

View of East China Sea from Yehliu | Yeliou, Taiwan Under the United Nations ' Law of the Sea, the PRC claims the disputed ocean territory as its own Exclusive Economic Zone ( EEZ ) due to its being part of PRC's natural extension of its continental shelf, while Japan claims the disputed ocean territory as its own EEZ because it is within 200 nautical miles ( 370 km ) from Japan's coast, and proposed a median line as the boundary between the EEZ of China and Japan.

* Nationality Law of the People's Republic of China, the law which defines who is or may become a PRC national

China Construction Bank Corporation was formed as a joint-stock commercial bank in September 2004 as a result of a separation procedure undertaken by its predecessor, China Construction Bank, under the PRC Company Law.

The Road Traffic Safety Law of the People's Republic of China () is a law which was passed by the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on October 28, 2003, promulgated by Decree No. 8 of the President of the PRC Hu Jintao, and took effect on May 1, 2004 on all parts of mainland China ( but not in Hong Kong and Macau which have their own judicial systems.