Sentences with phrase «between taiwan»

There is a bridge in Costa Rica called «Backstab Bridge» by the locals since it was financed, designed, and primarily built by Taiwan to sweeten relations between Taiwan and Costa Rica, only to have Costa Rica end ties with the country in favor of a relationship with China.

Throughout his career Cai has addressed the violence of the age in which we live, in works referencing the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the conflict between Taiwan and mainland China, 9/11, and seemingly never ending acts of terrorism.

Mr. Kuo grew up between Taiwan and St. Louis in an environment where his artistic interests were encouraged from a young age.

«Six Excerpts from a Journal» juxtaposes outer space imagery and a monologue addressing the relationship between Taiwan and the US weaved with personal narratives.

China Airlines, the flag carrier of the Republic of China (commonly known as Taiwan), offers daily service between Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (Taiwan) and Narita International Airport (Tokyo, Japan) to Honolulu (Oahu) with connecting service to numerous other destinations in Asia.

In the Luzon Strait, between Taiwan and the Philippine island of Luzon, they can reach up to 170 meters (558 feet) tall and travel several hundred kilometers, making them some of the largest waves in the world.

Combining computer models constructed largely by Princeton University researchers with on - ship observations, the researchers determined the movement and energy of the waves from their origin on a double - ridge between Taiwan and the Philippines to when they fade off the coast of China.

More recently, China has been incensed by comments by Taiwan Premier William Lai that it deemed were in support of Taiwan independence, though Taipei says Lai's position remains that the status quo between Taiwan and the mainland should be maintained.

Taiwan's Defence Ministry said two Chinese H - 6K bombers had flown around the island on Wednesday afternoon, passing first through the Miyako Strait, to Taiwan's northeast, then back to base via the Bashi Channel between Taiwan and the Philippines.

So, it's more useful to focus on the language that is used to define the relationship between Taiwan and China.

«During the discussion, they noted the close economic, political, and security ties exists between Taiwan and the United States,» the transition said.

Not exact matches

The city - state has also been used as a neutral meeting place for other Asian summits, including the historic first meeting between Chinese president Xi Jinping and Taiwan's president Ma Ying - jeou in 2015.

«When the decision to end a decades - long practice is made with so little warning and clear communication, it raises the likelihood of misunderstanding and miscalculation and sets the stage for a crisis between the United States and China over Taiwan.»

As such, changes in fair value are recognized in income, including fluctuations due to the exchange rate between the New Taiwan Dollar and the United States Dollar.

To be sure, the summit will only further antagonize the hardcore pro-independence cohort, but it will likely persuade moderates in Taiwan to support a policy of peace and reconciliation between the two nations.

In the past, the most difficult hurdle for holding high - level official meetings between China and Taiwan has been Taiwan's status.

While the meeting, which will be the first between leaders of the mainland and Taiwan since 1949, represents a monumental breakthrough in cross-strait relations, many questions remain unanswered as to the intent and outcome of this summit.

China had said the live - fire drills would happen on Wednesday off the city of Quanzhou, in between two groups of islands close to China's coast but which Taiwan has controlled since 1949, when defeated Nationalist forces fled to the island at the end of the Chinese civil war.

The latest Chinese military movements come during a time of heightened tension between Beijing and the island and follows strong warnings by Chinese President Xi Jinping against any Taiwan separatism last month.

Hello Kitty may have been the star of the day, but she was there to help Taiwanese carrier EVA usher in its high - profile new route between Houston and Taiwan's capital of Taipei.

Tensions between Beijing and Taiwan have risen in recent months, with China conducting several military drills near Taiwan.

Taiwan's President Tsai Ing - wen said Friday she would be willing to meet her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping «for peace and stability» in the wake of a landmark summit between the leaders of the two Koreas.

Taiwan Semiconductor (TSMC) guided for second - quarter revenue between $ 7.8 billion and $ 7.9 billion.

CHICAGO / WASHINGTON (Reuters)- U.S. President - elect Donald Trump's challenges to China on trade and Taiwan are rattling American companies who have long benefited from stable relations between the two countries but now fear retaliation by Beijing if Trump were to act.

And finally, United Renewable Energy, a partnership between three of Taiwan's biggest cell makers, has announced plans to establish a U.S. module factory.

With primarily market - driven economies, South Korea and Taiwan have exhibited both rapid economic growth and a narrowing of income gaps between rich and poor.

The report looks at organic equivalency arrangements between the U.S. and Canada (implemented in 2009), the EU (2012), Japan (2014) and Taiwan (2009).

And what I didn't expect was how many generational and cultural differences there would be between myself and my own mother, who was raised in Taiwan.

However, the passing of the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China in March 2005 increased tensions between mainland China and Taiwan, damaging attempts to lift the ban, and several EU Council members retracted their support for a lift of the ban.

In the following picture: Which flag is placed between the national flag of the Dominican Republic (7th from left) and the national flag of the Republic of China (Taiwan)(9th from left)?

Their chairman told us that under no circumstances could we visit Taiwan or there would be «grave consequences for the relationship between the Chinese People's Republic and the United Kingdom».

It's widely reported that Donald Trump's phone call with Tsai Ing - wen is the first known call between a President or President - elect of the US and the President of Taiwan since 1979.

According to him, «The correct position is that the official relationship between Nigeria and Taiwan has been at the level of trade representation and this has not changed from what it used to be.

The retrospective cohort study used records from Taiwan's single - payer National Health Insurance program to track treatment of 1,377 people who were diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea between 2000 and 2008.

The researchers modeled the internal waves that move through the Luzon Strait between southern Taiwan and the Philippine island of Luzon.

The scientists collected air samples on the ground in Malaysia and Taiwan, in the region of the South China Sea, between 2012 and 2014, and shipped them back to the UK for analysis.

«Sometimes we find reefs that are doing very, very well in places that you would least expect to find them,» says Gates — such as a reef off Taiwan that lies below the waste - water outfall pipe of a nuclear power plant and experiences temperature fluctuations of between 6 °C and 8 °C per day.

There's no telling what kinds of fishermen's tales they told, but the early modern humans who lived on tiny Okinawa Island between mainland Japan and Taiwan nearly 30,000 years ago are the world's oldest known anglers.

These findings were published in Nature, summarizing an international collaboration between OIST researchers and teams from the US, UK, Japan, Taiwan and Canada.

In K. japonica, the anthers of adjacent stamens are connected, but in samples collected on Okinawa, Taiwan and other parts of the Ryukyu Islands, they discovered individuals without connections between the anthers of adjacent stamens.

The authors remark that in Taiwan, according to the national prescription database, between 1997 and 2003, 8 million people were exposed to herbals containing Aristolochia.

It's one of the most promising techniques in weather forecasting in a generation, and is already used on government - owned constellations, including the six microsatellites that were launched in the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC), a joint project between NOAA and Taiwan.

«There is growing evidence of an association between diabetes and HCV,» explains lead author, Chun - Ying Wu, MD, PhD, MPH from Taichung Veterans General Hospital in Taiwan.

Researchers in Taiwan examined the association between ACEI / ARB use and the risk of long - term dialysis and death in a nationwide group of 28,497 patients in a study by Ta - Wei Hsu, M.D., of the National Yang - Ming University Hospital, and colleagues.

According to the IUCN, roughly 2000 tonnes of live turtles and frogs were imported into Hong Kong annually between 1988 and 1991, 252 tonnes of live snakes entered Hong Kong and Taiwan in 1991, and 116.2 tonnes of geckos were shipped into Taiwan and South Korea during 1992.

The new device, created by Yang - Fang Chen at the National Taiwan University in Taipei and his colleagues, bounces light between closely packed zinc oxide and titanium dioxide nanoparticles instead.

But another study by researchers in the United States and Taiwan found a similar association between slow earthquakes — which take places over hours or even days — and tropical cyclones in Taiwan.

Shimon Wdowinski, a seismologist at the University of Miami, Florida, says that he has found a strong correlation between extremely wet tropical cyclones striking Taiwan and big earthquakes that occur up to three years later.

The JCMT is operated by the East Asian Observatory, a partnership between China, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan, with support from the astronomy communities in Canada and the United Kingdom.

This study assesses the effect of a DIC - solution injection by using a simple two end - member model to simulate the variation of pH, DIC, total alkalinity (TA) and pCO2 between the river and sea mixing process for the Danshuei River estuary and Hoping River in Taiwan.