Example sentences of "to china " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHILE the people of Hong Kong , stripped of any useful British nationality by successive immigration laws , fear for their future after the massacre at Peking in June , many Macao citizens , just 40 miles away across the Pearl River delta , rest secure in the knowledge that Portugal will offer them a guaranteed home of last resort after it returns their territory to China in 1999 . |
| 2 | Following Portugal 's revolution in 1974 , Lisbon tried to hand back Macao to China . |
| 3 | In the short term at least , Hong Kong seems to have succumbed to China 's charm offensive . |
| 4 | If it was , it would jeopardise its position as the gateway to China . ’ |
| 5 | The colony has grown rich over the past decade as gatekeeper to China 's open door . |
| 6 | More likely , they said , was that China would continue to modernise its economy , so that by 1997 the situation would be more one of China 's adjusting to Hong Kong , than of Hong Kong 's trimming itself to China . |
| 7 | He also said that the Prince and Princess of Wales would not make a planned visit to China in November ‘ so long as those responsible for the atrocities over the past weekend remain in control of the Chinese government ’ . |
| 8 | Britain bowed limply to China 's demands — even though this meant weaseling-out of previous pledges to put a representative elected government into Hong Kong before 1997 , and even though Peking itself had promised a ‘ Hong Kong run by Hong Kong people ’ . |
| 9 | They refrained from responding to a long series of statements by senior Chinese officials which contradicted both the letter and the spirit of the Joint Declaration - including an assurance , for example , that the post-1997 Hong Kong press would be free for ‘ as long as it did not publish anything detrimental to China 's national interest ’ . |
| 10 | For some while , the trip has had uncomfortable similarities to the Soviet leader 's visit to China last May , when the presence of the man who incarnates reform in the Communist world served as a combustible in the ‘ Peking Spring ’ that was to be forcibly suppressed a fortnight later . |
| 11 | Pressure on the authorities not to send Mr Yang back to China grew on Tuesday when Amnesty International requested all its members telex John Major , the Foreign Secretary , urging him not to allow Mr Yang to be returned ‘ under any circumstances ’ . |
| 12 | Journalists ' associations compared the seizing of the tapes to China intercepting satellite transmissions to track down ‘ counter-revolutionaries ’ . |
| 13 | But the Chinese embassy in Oslo , where the prize is awarded , reacted with accusations that it was meddling in China 's internal affairs , the stock response to any foreign commentary deemed hostile to China 's rule of Tibet . |
| 14 | In what was seen as an important concession to China and condemned by more militant Tibetans as a sell-out , the Dalai Lama effectively acknowledged China 's overall sovereignty and suggested that Tibet become a self-governing region in association with China , a relationship that would leave Peking in control of both foreign policy and defence . |
| 15 | THE East German leader , Erich Honecker , yesterday compared unrest in his country to China 's pro-democracy uprising earlier this year , and said that any attempt to undermine communism in East Germany would be doomed to failure . |
| 16 | It was a further example of Peking 's present heavy-handed approach towards Hong Kong , and stemmed from the colonial government 's decision not to return swimmer Yang Yang to China last week , but to allow him to leave for asylum in the United States . |
| 17 | Normally the ‘ illegals ’ are handed back to China on the border almost daily , but Peking now says it will check each case , a move expected to slow repatriation to a trickle and put further pressure on the Territory 's detention centres , which are already overflowing with Vietnamese boat people . |
| 18 | China is angry over Hong Kong people 's support for the democracy movement and some see the border dispute as an attempt by Peking to press the government to take action against the Hong Kong Alliance , a political group that has provided financial support to China 's democracy movement . |
| 19 | But he will probably avoid restating Britain 's position that it is mainly China 's responsibility to restore Hong Kong 's confidence , and will instead urge locals to build the territory as a separate but valuable part of the ‘ one country , two systems ’ model under which it is to return to China . |
| 20 | In an upbeat policy speech that marked the opening session of the Legislative Council , Sir David was at pains to show a government committed to building a future for the territory beyond the 1997 handover to China . |
| 21 | Had n't his book , in which he retained a belief that two systems in one country would work when Hong Kong went back to China , been rather overtaken by events ? |
| 22 | When it is discovered that the combination of certain proportions of charcoal , sulphur and saltpetre produces disagreeable results , then there is no reason why the benefits of gunpowder should be restricted to China . |
| 23 | She compromised with China in agreeing to the return of Hong Kong to China in 1997 and with the Zimbabwean nationalists over the Rhodesian negotiations , when it became clear that she could not get her way . |
| 24 | Her deep involvement in the Falklands war and determination to retain British sovereignty over the islands has to be set against Britain 's negotiated return of Hong Kong to China with effect from 1997 and refusal to support or condemn the US invasion of Grenada ( part of the Commonwealth ) . |
| 25 | One of them , Yi Sung-hun , went to China in 1783 . |
| 26 | A top advisory body to China 's communist party met on Friday , one day after senior leader Deng Xiaoping resigned from the party military commission , defying speculation of a further shake-up in the leadership . |
| 27 | An important manoeuvre was a stop-off by Mr Mladenov in Moscow early this month on his way to an official visit to China . |
| 28 | The film was made in 1987 and turned out to be the last chance for outsiders to trace the old route to China before Burma 's political blow-up of 1988 . |
| 29 | Republicans began to express concern yesterday that the President 's personal commitment to China , where he was ambassador in 1972 , was putting him at odds with public opinion still revolted by the brutal repression in Tiananmen Square . |
| 30 | What is puzzling is why the United States should hand such a diplomatic prize to China at a time when the original strategic basis of the friendship , mutual hostility to the Soviet Union , seems more tenuous than ever . |