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.

The PRC was shaped by a series of campaigns and five-year plans, with mixed success.

In the same year, the PRC was admitted to the United Nations in place of the Republic of China for China's membership of the United Nations, and permanent membership of the Security Council.

Because of the strength of the Communist Party of China and the importance of the Marxist interpretation of history in legitimizing its rule, it was for many years difficult for historians within the PRC to actively argue in favor of non-Marxist and anti-Marxist interpretations of history.

Mao Zedong's revolution that founded the PRC was nominally based on Marxism-Leninism with a rural focus based on China's social situations at the time.

In 2008 the PRC stated it was willing to negotiate with any party in Taiwan that " accepts the so-called 1992 consensus ".

On 10 December 2005, the New Zealand Herald quoted Tavola as saying that Fiji would have to find a way to resolve a stand-off between the PRC and Taiwan, over membership of the Suva-based Council of South Pacific Tourism Organisation ; China was resisting Taiwanese attempts to join the organization on an equal basis.

Produced at small Producers Releasing Corporation | PRC, however, the film was 30 % over budget.

Ghana and the PRC have had close and relatively good relations in that time despite a short period of relatively cold relations after Nkrumah was deposed in 1966.

On 1 July 1997, sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), ending over one and a half centuries of British rule.

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

Prior to the implementation of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office Act 1996 enacted by the British Parliament, Hong Kong represented its interests abroad through the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Offices ( HKETOs ) and via a special office in the British Embassies or High Commissions, but the latter has ceased after the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the PRC and became a special administrative region ( SAR ) of the PRC in 1997.

This situation was later changed: the Head of State of the PRC is now the President of the People's Republic of China.

Hoxha and Shehu apparently decided in May or June 1960 that Albania was assured of Chinese support, and they openly sided with the PRC when sharp polemics erupted between the PRC and the Soviet Union.

After the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, the only foreign aide Belgrade received from was from Russia, Greece, and the PRC.

This was inaugurated with the visit of U. S. President Richard Nixon to the PRC in 1972 and the US supporting the PRC replacing the Republic of China as the representative of China at the United Nations and taking its seat at the UN Security Council.

Finally, the PRC exploded its first atomic bomb in October 1964 and subsequently refused to give North Korea any nuclear weapons of its own, apparently fearing that Kim was too likely to use them in his quest to reunify the peninsula.

Political power has become much less personal and more institutionally based than it was during the first forty years of the PRC.

After the PRC was established in 1949, the PLA also became a state military.

India was among the first nations to grant diplomatic recognition to the newly created PRC.

Disputes-international: maritime boundary with Cambodia not defined ; involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), Republic of China ( ROC ), Malaysia, Philippines, and possibly Brunei ; maritime boundary with Thailand resolved in August 1997 ; maritime boundary dispute with the PRC in the Gulf of Tonkin resolved in 2000 ; Paracel Islands occupied by the PRC but claimed by Vietnam and the ROC ; offshore islands and sections of boundary with Cambodia are in dispute ; agreement on land border with the People's Republic of China was signed in December 1999.

As a consequence of the World War II and the Chinese Civil War, however, the ROC lost control of mainland China to the Chinese communist party which founded the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) while gaining and maintaining control of Taiwan island, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other islands.

The PRC ( founded October 1, 1949 ) argues that the Treaty of Shimonoseki was never valid, saying it was one of several unequal treaties forced upon the Qing.

Taiwanization's influence on the government of the ROC has caused instability: after the Communist Party of China expelled the ROC in the Chinese Civil War from most of Chinese territory in 1949 and founded the PRC, the ROC's Chinese Nationalist government, which still held Taiwan, continued to claim legitimacy as the government of all of China.

After the PRC was founded, early policies on ethnic relations were guided by Joseph Stalin's 1913 Marxism and the National Question.

The United Nations General Assembly has found that the Soviet Union prevented the National Government of the ROC from re-establishing Chinese authority in Manchuria after Japan surrendered and gave military and economic aid to the Chinese Communists, who founded the PRC in 1949, against the National Government of the ROC.

After the United States threatened to use nuclear weapons during the Korean War, Chairman Mao Zedong decided that only a nuclear deterrent of its own would guarantee the security of the newly founded PRC.

The PRC is known, in particular, for its Hiroshima / Nagasaki Memorial Collection founded on the archives of Barbara Leonard Reynolds, which the college believes is " the world's largest collection ( outside of Japan ) of reference materials related to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

China Radio International ( CRI ), () the former Radio Beijing and originally Radio Peking, founded on December 3 of 1941, is a state-owned radio station in the People's Republic of China ( PRC ).

The PRC was founded by Dr. Clark W. Hawk in 1991 and has since provided support for NASA, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Energy.

* 1902: The Liberal Party of Cuba was founded by many of those who had formerly been members of the PRC.

The PdCI was founded in 1998 as a split from the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ) by Armando Cossutta, the original leader of the PRC.

Later still when the PRC was founded the former LCR argued for Democrazia Proletaria to dissolve into the larger formation.

The PRC also has relationships with a small fellowship in New Zealand ; the Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Australia ; a small sister church in Northern Ireland which was founded with the help of the PRC and ; the Protestant Reformed Churches in Myanmar.

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 the case of Southeast Asia, the ROC President was able to arrange visits in the early 1990s which were formally private tourist visits, however these have become increasingly infrequent as a result of PRC pressure.

Although most of the simplified Chinese characters in use today are the result of the works moderated by the government of the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) in the 1950s and 60s, character simplification predates the PRC's formation in 1949.

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.

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.

Despite the introduction of western style medical facilities and the implementation of a National Essential Drug Policy, the PRC has several emerging public health problems, which include problems as a result of pollution, a progressing HIV-AIDS epidemic, hundreds of millions of cigarette smokers, and the increase in obesity among the population.

As a result, what Westerners may see as state regulation of social activities, the PRC government often describes as necessary policies to preserve social stability.

The most notable enforcement action was the $ 100M penalty applied to ITT as a result of the unauthorized Retransfer of night vision technology to the PRC in 2007.

* the prosecution of Dr J Reece Roth of the University of Tennessee in 2008 for breaches of ITAR as a result of access to USML items by a PRC graduate student ;

* the prosecution of Chi Mak in 2007 as a result of ( among other things ) the attempted export of USML items to the PRC ( Chi Mak was subsequently sentenced to 24 ½ years in Federal prison ).

According to the PRC the increase is viewed as the result of the abolishment of the theocracy and introduction of a modern, higher standard of living.

In response, the PRC has maintained that its nuclear technology was indigenously developed and was not the result of espionage.

The legal system of Macau was not substantially modified in 1999, as a result of the transfer of power from Portugal to the PRC, given that there is a principle of continuity of the pre-existing legal system, according to which all sources in force prior to the transfer of sovereignty continued to apply, with some minor exceptions that were specified in December 1999.

The change in name was a result of the Nagoya Resolution, adopted by the International Olympic Committee in 1979 due to objections by the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) over the political status of Taiwan.

The PRC, weakened by this split, had a poor result in the 1999 European elections, but Bertinotti was nevertheless elected to the European Parliament.

While there have been no other instances of an entire congregation leaving a mainstream church to join the PRC, the PRC has grown to now include congregations in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, South Australia, and as a result of missionary work links have been established to congregations in New Zealand, Vanuatu and Fiji.

President Ma has called repeatedly for the PRC to dismantle the missile batteries targeted on Taiwan's cities, without result.