With one brief interruption, it has borne the name ever since.

Indeed, Chen even argued that the Taiwanese were never Chinese.

Those she killed and those killed were all Chinese, all are fellows.

The Tibetans, by contrast, can share this feeling only to the extent that they become fully Chinese.

One elected chamber might be reserved only for Communist Party members, the other for representatives elected by ordinary Chinese.

Indeed, Chinese President Hu Jintao s recent trip to Washington was seen by many particularly many Chinese as the passing of the torch.

Young people in countries as diverse as Egypt and the US are in effect competing with young Chinese and Indians for jobs. China s low paid, reasonably productive manufacturing workers and high quality infrastructure (roads, power, ports, and communications) has set the standard for competitiveness globally.

Young people in countries as diverse as Egypt and the US are in effect competing with young Chinese and Indians for jobs.

The Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office took charge of the paper's correspondents based on the mainland, demanding that they be replaced by ethnic Chinese.

Kissinger works personally with the Chinese account, jointly propounding with his long time rival Zbigniew Brzezinski the notion, so seductive for an America growing weary of its imperial burden, of a global Big Two.

The prevailing response in the 1960's to Israel's triumph was that the Arabs should adapt the guerilla strategies pursued by the Vietnamese, Chinese, and Cubans.

I interviewed Chinese guys who were interested in dating me and they did pour out a lot of frustration onto me, about their inability to date or just seduce local Chinese women.

These days, policy on China is driven entirely by the Treasury, which subscribes to the view that one can do business with the Chinese only from a position of servility.

This ideology feeds a deep popular perception of China as a wounded, humiliated third world victim and instills in the ruling Communist Party a powerful sense of unresolved grievance.

General Chiang Kai shek declared in 1946 that the Tibetans were Chinese, and he certainly would not have granted them independence if his Nationalists had won the civil war.

And, in fact, Pakistan needs to build about a half dozen such plants in addition to the two already being built by the Chinese near Karachi to address its energy shortfall, which amounts to an estimated 5,000 megawatts annually.

Both the public and private sector throughout the region should take immediate measures to face up to this new competition and to work toward cooperative projects with the Chinese.

According to the 2006 census, the country's largest self reported ethnic origin is Canadian (accounting for 32 of the population), followed by English (21 ), French (15.8 ), Scottish (15.1 ), Irish (13.9 ), German (10.2 ), Italian (4.6 ), Chinese (4.3 ), First Nations (4.0 ), Ukrainian (3.9 ), and Dutch (3.3 ).

But the treatment accorded the prisoners of various nationalities (Arab, Uzbek, Ughuir, Chinese) at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, shows that President Bush and his top advisors apply the Conventions when it suits them.