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  2. Shift in China-U.S. trade is hurting California, helping Texas

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    Overall, the U.S. trade deficit of all goods and services fell last year by almost 19%, the largest drop since 2009, as Americans bought less foreign oil and fewer China-made phones, toys and ...

  3. History of Chinese Americans in Texas - Wikipedia

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    Texas has a Chinese American population. As of the 2010 U.S. census, it is 0.6% Chinese with over 150,000 living there. Many live in Plano, Houston, and Sugar Land.. After May 1869, a group of Chinese workers in the Western United States began moving to Texas, as there was a demand for labor in the post-American Civil War environment. [1]

  4. China, Texas - Wikipedia

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    China was first known as "China Grove", for a water stop for the Texas and New Orleans Railroad that sat amidst a grove of chinaberry trees. In the 1860s a small community grew around the water stop, and another a few miles away named Nashland. A post office with the name "China" was established there in 1893.

  5. Jinshi - Wikipedia

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    Tong Jinshi Chushen (同進士出身, lit. "along with jinshi background"), graduates ranked third class in the court exam. The Confucius Temple in Dongcheng District , firstly built in 1302 under Temür Khan (Emperor Chengzong) is the second largest in China.

  6. History of Chinese Americans in Houston - Wikipedia

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    A Taoist temple, [41] Texas Guandi Temple (德州關帝廟; 德州关帝庙; Dézhōu Guāndì Miào) is located in East Downtown. [42] The temple was established in 1999 by a Vietnamese couple, [43] Charles Loi Ngo and Carolyn, [44] the former originating from China. [45]

  7. Consulate General of China, Houston - Wikipedia

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    The Consulate-General of the People's Republic of China in Houston was a diplomatic mission of China, headquartered at 3417 Montrose Boulevard in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Texas. It served eight states in the Southern United States : Texas, Oklahoma , Louisiana , Arkansas , Mississippi , Alabama , Georgia , and Florida , in addition ...

  8. Political systems of Imperial China - Wikipedia

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    The political systems of Imperial China can be divided into a state administrative body, provincial administrations, and a system for official selection. The three notable tendencies in the history of Chinese politics includes, the convergence of unity, the capital priority of absolute monarchy , and the standardization of official selection. [ 1 ]

  9. Trump Buddha - Wikipedia

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    ' Sukhavati Buddha of Knowing Everything '), commonly known as Trump Buddha or Buddha Trump, is a Buddha-inspired statue of Donald Trump by Chinese furniture maker and artist Hong Jinshi. [1] [2] The statue depicts Donald Trump in a Buddhist robe sitting in a cross-legged position with his hands folded on his lap, and his thumbs pointed outward.