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China, formally the People's Republic of China, is a unitary one-party state in East Asia whose current government was established on 1 October 1949, when the Chinese Communist Party's victory in the Chinese Civil War ended Nationalist rule on the mainland. That date marks the founding of the present government, not of Chinese civilization or statehood generally, which political history traces back thousands of years through dynasties and empires, and whose imperial era ended separately in the Xinhai Revolution of 1911 to 1912.
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Founding Year1949 is the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government that holds the territory today, and is uncontested as a date for that specific government. It is not offered as the founding of China as a civilization or as a continuous state, which this atlas does not compress into one year; the entity description narrates that distinction. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names China directly: "on 24 October 1945 once ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and a majority of other signatories."
This source names China directly: "and established the Republic of China."
This source names China directly: "the United States, Russia, and China, are not parties, which has led to disputes over the Court's authority to issue arrest warrants against their nationals or leaders, and some African Union member..."
This source names China directly: "state to the 221 BCE unification of China under its First Emperor; the school's explicit political dominance receded after Qin's fall, though its administrative and legal machinery persisted inside..."
Britannica names the Chinese Communist Party as a classic example of a hegemonic single-party ruler.
This source names China directly: "agriculture, and in Maoist China, distinguished from social democracy, which retains a market economy and private property alongside redistribution and a welfare state, by its direct state control..."
This source names China directly: "president of the Republic of China in 1912."
This source names China directly: "president of the Republic of China."
China is named as a unitary state.
This source names China directly: "It has fifteen members: five permanent (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) each holding a veto over substantive resolutions, and ten elected for two-year terms."
China is one of the five permanent, veto-holding members of the UN Security Council.
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Modern China's territorial extent, including its claims over Tibet and Xinjiang, traces substantially to the borders the Qing dynasty established at its eighteenth-century height; Mongolia, also Qing territory, became independent separately in the twentieth century.
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1. China (Britannica)
Qing Dynasty (Britannica)
Shaped By: Qing Dynasty
Xi Jinping (Wikipedia)
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Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who is the paramount leader of China.
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Li Qiang is a Chinese politician who is the premier of China
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