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1995: The People's Republic of China test fired missiles to waters within 60 kilometers of Taiwan, followed by live fire military exercises, in an attempt to sway election results. 1996: The first direct vote election was held for the office of the President of the Republic of China.
Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-15450-2. Military Power of the People’s Republic of China, 2007. Department of Defense: Annual Report. Zhu, Zhiqun. (editor). (2011). The People's Republic of China Today: Internal and External Challenges. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. ISBN 981-4313-50-5
The 1970s saw many switches in diplomatic recognition from the Republic of China to the People's Republic of China. After World War II, the Republic of China had been one of the founding members in the United Nations and held China's seat on the Security Council until 1971, when it was expelled by General Assembly Resolution 2758 and replaced ...
The history of the People's Republic of China details the history of mainland China since 1 October 1949, when CCP chairman Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China (PRC) from atop Tiananmen, after a near complete victory (1949) by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the Chinese Civil War.
Since its founding in 1949, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has had a diplomatic tug-of-war with its rival in Taiwan, the Republic of China (ROC). Throughout the Cold War, both governments claimed to be the sole legitimate government of all China and allowed countries to recognize either one or the other.
Nationalist China at War: Military Defeats and Political Collapse, 1937–1945 (1982). Cohen, Warren I. America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (5th ed. 2010) Dreyer, Edward L. China at War, 1901-1949 (1995). 422 pp. Dulles, Foster Rhea. China and America: The Story of Their Relations Since 1784 (1981), general survey
The Korean War had been enormously costly to China, especially coming on the heels of the civil war, and it delayed postwar reconstruction. In 1949, Mao Zedong declared that the nation would " lean to one side ", [ 24 ] meaning that the Soviet Union and the communist bloc would be its principal allies. [ 25 ]
The ROC claimed 11.4 million km 2 (4.4 million sq mi) of territory, [2] and its population of 541 million in 1949 made it the most populous country in the world. The Republic of China was officially proclaimed on 1 January 1912 by revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen, the ROC's founder and provisional president of the new republic, following the ...