Definitions
Wiktionary
- The Royal Observer Corps, a United Kingdom defence organisation (1925 to 1992)
- The Republic of China (i.e. Taiwan)
- slang The "Rest of Canada" (the anglophone part of Canada).
Examples
“I think it's still wrong to describe Taiwan as a part of China when the vast majority of Taiwanese don't think it is and the government of Taiwan has long ignored the provisions that imply that China is a part of the ROC or the name ROC itself.”
“By the late 1990s it became clear that the acronym ROC was becoming an increasing barrier in the business community to recognizing the role of the Council – business executives and others would ask, what's ROC?”
“Like Taiwan or ROC is apples and PRC is oranges, so not mix the apples and oranges, keep separate for better no confusion today.”
“The only solution I can see in a nine-province reconstituted ROC is a decentralisation of aboriginal and other policies like immigration and multicultural policy and trade policy.”
“However, when wants to contract the military they call the ROC and the ROC contacts the appropriate military unit.”
“The LMCC had to call the ROC (because they are not co-located) and the ROC had to call the appropriate division for assistance in some instances every second counts so it would be good if the LMCC was co-located with the ROC.”
The Huffington Post: David Isenberg: The GAO Transcripts: Part 3, Aegis Defence Interview
“In addition, the ROC hosts a daily intelligence briefing which highlights current intelligence information in addition, ROB users can call the ROC and get intelligence info over the phone for specific routes etc.”
The Huffington Post: David Isenberg: The GAO Transcripts: Part 3, Aegis Defence Interview
“The placard changed to "Dear President Chiang [Kai-Shek], the [Taiwan] Area Administrator Ma [Ying-Jeou] finally is overthrowing [the 'ROC' goverment]" a day after the police quashed all displays of the "ROC" flag and mistreated the demonstrators who protested against the visit of the Chinese envoy Chen Yinlin last November.”
This Restaurant Doesn't Serve Chinese Tourists and Taiwanese Traitors
“When the tables were turned after 1971, the ROC was the defacto gov't of Formosa but no longer the dejure gov't of China.”
Lin Trial Transcripts: Does the US have sovereignty over Taiwan?
“Outside Quebec, also known as the ROC, support for our government is at 53%.”
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