Over the next decades Chinese nationalism was influenced strongly by Russian ethnographic thinking, and the official ideology of the PRC asserts that China is a multi-ethnic state, and Han Chinese, despite being the overwhelming majority ( over 90 % in the mainland ), they are only one of many ethnic groups of China, each of whose culture and language should be respected.

The British Government asserts that British National ( Overseas ) passport holders enjoy the same level of consular service in third countries ( outside the UK and PRC ) as other British Nationals.

The 1996 United States campaign finance controversy was an alleged effort by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) to influence the domestic policies of the United States, before and during the Clinton administration, and involved the fundraising practices of the administration itself.

To emphasize " equal footing " in cross-strait relations, the term is used in official contexts with reference to Taiwan, with the PRC referring to itself as " the mainland side " ( as opposed to " the Taiwan side ").

But in its relations with Hong Kong and Macau, the PRC government refers to itself as " the Central People's Government ".

The phrase " mainland China " emerged as a politically neutral term to refer to the area under control of the Communist Party of China, and later to the administration of the PRC itself.

While the government of the ROC considered itself the remaining holdout of the legitimate government of a country overrun by what it thought of as Communist rebels, the PRC claimed to have succeeded the ROC in the Chinese Civil War.

Though the ROC no longer portrays itself as the sole legitimate government of China, the position of the PRC remained unchanged until the early 2000s, when the PRC began to soften its position on this issue to promote Chinese reunification.

The People's Republic of China ( PRC ) regards itself as the " successor state " of the Republic of China ( ROC ), which the PRC claims no longer legitimately exists, following establishment of the PRC in mainland China.

However, the new government, led by the leaders of the coup d ' état and calling itself the People's Redemption Council ( PRC ), lacked experience and was ill prepared to rule.

When PRC started defending itself with attacking the military troops in the north of Vietnam.

On the eve of the Cultural Revolution, Liu Shaoqi, then the PRC President, fell victim to the Constitution itself.

The PRC itself ( excluding South Tibet dispute | South Tibet and Taiwan ) is in black.

One major consequence of this policy was that the PRC would not support Communist insurgencies in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia and Malaysia, and would distance itself from overseas Chinese in those nations.

Finally, as the PRC does not consider Taiwan to be sovereign, the concept of peaceful coexistence does not extend to Taiwan, and efforts by other nations, particularly the United States, to involve itself in PRC-Taiwan relations are seen as hostile actions in this framework.

The conditions for the use of armed force are set out, and explicitly states that the PRC may not limit itself to the use of conventional weapons, implying the use of weapons of mass destruction.

Nor does the holding of any foreign passport itself affect the eligibility for a HKSAR passport, provided that one remains a PRC citizen.

As a result, under current CPC General Secretary and President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, the PRC has initiated policies to address these issues of equitable distribution of resources, but the outcome remains to be seen.

In contrast, the KMT or pan-blue coalition agrees that the Republic of China is an independent and sovereign country that is not part of the PRC, but argues that a one China principle ( with different definitions across the strait ) can be used as the basis for talks with the PRC.

Infantry weapons of Soviet manufacture imported from the USSR, Czechoslovakia and the PRC were to be issued as they became available.

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.

* 2002 People's Republic of China ( Guangdong and Shenzhen, chartered on May 14, are the first international service clubs to be granted permission by the government of the PRC to operate in mainland China )

The PRC has continuously advocated the possibility of moving some or all of these military facilities to Hainan, although this may not be taken up due to sensitivities in diplomatic relations between Singapore and her largely Islamic neighbours.

The recent resolutions have all emphasized that Resolution 2758, replacing the ROC with the PRC in 1971, only addressed the question of who should have China's seat in the UN rather than whether an additional seat for the Taiwan Area can be created to represent the 23 million people on Taiwan and the ROC's other islands.

In the 1990s, Chinese democracy movements underwent a decline both within the PRC and overseas, in part due a number of philosophical reasons, and are fragmented and not considered by most analysts to be a serious threat to power to the government.

The Chinese Civil War ( 1927 – 1950 ) was a civil war fought between the Kuomintang ( KMT ), or the Chinese Nationalist Party-led Nationalist Government of the Republic of China, and the Communist Party of China ( CPC ), for the control of each other's territory which eventually led to two de facto states, the Republic of China ( ROC ) in Taiwan and the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in mainland China both claiming to be the legitimate government of China.

According to Zhao, through The Epoch Times it can be discerned how Falun Gong is building a " de facto media alliance " with China's democracy movements in exile, as demonstrated by its frequent printing of articles by prominent overseas Chinese critics of the PRC government.

Before the 1990s, both the PRC and the ROC claimed to be the legal government of the whole of China and Taiwan.

The official policy of the Republic of China, the government that has ruled Taiwan since acquiring it from Japan in 1945, supports Chinese reunification in the sense that the united body would be governed by the ROC, and not the PRC.

According to the proposal outlined by CPC General secretary and President Jiang Zemin in 1995, Taiwan would lose sovereignty and the right to self-determination, but would be permitted to keep its armed forces and to send a representative to be the " number two leader " in the PRC central government.

The consensus among most citizens of the PRC seems to be one of support for reunification by all means necessary, as much for reasons of national pride as for economic or geopolitical reasons.

As for the government of the PRC, on the one hand, most analysts predict Beijing would be willing to go to great lengths to defeat any declaration of Taiwan independence, even if it meant military action.

On mainland China, the PRC government has on the surface adopted a neutral policy on Taiwanization and its highest level leaders publicly proclaim it does not consider the Taiwanization movement to be either a violation of its One China Policy or equivalent to the independence movement.

Since the ROC lost its United Nations seat as " China " in 1971 ( replaced by the PRC ), most sovereign states have switched their diplomatic recognition to the PRC, recognizing or acknowledging the PRC to be the sole legitimate representative of all China, though many deliberately avoid stating clearly what territories they believe China includes.

This position started to be largely adjusted in the early 1990s as democracy was introduced and new Taiwanese leaders were elected, changing to one that does not actively challenge the legitimacy of PRC rule over mainland China.

The People's Republic of China ( PRC ) was established in mainland China on October 1, 1949, claiming to be the successor to the ROC.

The position of the PRC is that the ROC ceased to be a legitimate government upon the founding of the former on October 1, 1949 and that the PRC is the successor of the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China, with the right to rule Taiwan under the succession of states theory.

and the Holy See officially recognize the Republic of China, as the PRC makes breaking ties with the ROC and recognizing the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China ( including Taiwan ) the prerequisite to establishing diplomatic relations with the PRC.

It is clear that the PRC still maintains that " there is only one China in the world " and " Taiwan is an inalienable part of China ", however instead of " the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government of China ", the PRC now emphasizes that " both Taiwan and the mainland belong to one and the same China ".

One interpretation, which was adopted during the Cold War, is that either the PRC or the ROC is the sole rightful government of all China and that the other government is illegitimate.

The PRC has traditionally attempted to get nations to recognize that " the Government of the People's Republic of China is the sole legal government of China ... and Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People's Republic of China.

It also recognized the PRC as the sole legal authority of China.

To date, the PRC exercises sovereignty over mainland China, while the ROC exercises sovereignty over Taiwan and some minor islands, with each officially claiming to be the sole legitimate government for both mainland China and Taiwan.

In 1949, the Communist Party of China seized power in mainland China and declared the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), claiming to have replaced the ROC as the sole legitimate government of China and the ROC government retreated to the island of Taiwan ( which it gained control of in 1945 at the end of WWII ), Quemoy Island, and the Matsu Islands.

As a result of these trends, on October 25, 1971, Resolution 2758 was passed by the General Assembly with 76 countries supporting, 35 countries opposing, 17 countries abstaining, and 3 countries non-voting, withdrawing recognition of the ROC as the legitimate government of China, and recognizing the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China.

Spokesman for the group, Abu Abir, also announced that the PRC had formed special units in the West Bank whose sole purpose is to kidnap soldiers and settlers, in accordance with the continued Operation " Cavaliers ' Wrath.

The US agreed to recognize the PRC as China's sole government.

The Communists declared the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) as the successor state of the Republic of China ( ROC ), while the Nationalists championed the continued existence of the Republic of China as the sole legitimate Chinese government.

In the text, Canada recognises the PRC government as the " sole legal government of China " and " takes note " of China's position that Taiwan is an " inalienable part of the territory " of the PRC.