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  • proper noun slang The People's Republic of China

Etymologies

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Red + China

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Examples

  • In 1965, we had to accept the idea that our worst and most irrational enemy, the nation we then called Red China, had the bomb.

    MJ Rosenberg: Is Israel Suicidal? MJ Rosenberg 2012

  • In 1965, we had to accept the idea that our worst and most irrational enemy, the nation we then called Red China, had the bomb.

    MJ Rosenberg: Is Israel Suicidal? MJ Rosenberg 2012

  • We must not call everyone a communist or an appeaser who advocates the seating of Red China in the United Nations and who recognizes that hate and hysteria are not the final answers to the problem of these turbulent days.

    Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech Chris Weigant 2011

  • We must not call everyone a communist or an appeaser who advocates the seating of Red China in the United Nations and who recognizes that hate and hysteria are not the final answers to the problem of these turbulent days.

    Chris Weigant: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Vietnam Speech Chris Weigant 2011

  • For it was on this day that the failure of the oppressive system of Red China in Tibet became apparent and that the Chinese in their frustration to cover up their deficiencies had to use violence to promulgate what is essentially the reverse to Communist ideals; colonialism.

    1971 2010

  • For it was on this day that the failure of the oppressive system of Red China in Tibet became apparent and that the Chinese in their frustration to cover up their deficiencies had to use violence to promulgate what is essentially the reverse to Communist ideals; colonialism.

    1971 2010

  • We should have emulated the Americans and made Hong Kong a county of England, more effectively regulated immigration (which we are incapable of - drowning our territories in uncontrolled immigrants of the worst kind) and told Red China to go take a running jump.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Keying light size to population was also hazardous, Beaton noted, for then "600 million Chinese in Red China are going to be in Category 1."

    Icon of a Fair, a Borough, the World Thomas J. Campanella 2010

  • When the terms of the treaty were put to Red China they refused to recognise the treaty - so why was 1997 an issue?

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Investment, as Wall Street has taught us, knows no borders and money is green even when it comes from a place like Red China.

    Joel Epstein: Working With China to Build Public Transportation in LA 2010

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