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Kashmir

2

demarcation

1

unsettled; pending; unresolved

1

actually; really

1

risk

1

Bangladesh

1

detached territory; enclave; exclave; scattered landholdings

1

economic disparity

1

destabilization; destabilisation

1

year; age; years; past one's prime; old age

1

front and rear; front and back; before and after; around; about; order; context

1

to make sacrifices for; to pay dearly for

1

disturbance; agitation; commotion; upheaval; riot

1

Rwanda; Ruanda

1

Somalia

1

Chinese Civil War (1927-1937, 1946-1949)

1

one-thousandth; 0.03 mm (one-thousandth of a sun); 0.01 percent (one-thousandth of a wari); old monetary unit (0.0001 yen)

9

Takutou

9

head; chief; chairman; governor; top seat; first desk (in orchestra)

1

friendship

1

assistance; aid; support

1

mainland China; China proper

1

to be oversized (overloud, etc.)

1

doing ... until one goes bankrupt; doing ... until one goes broke; falling short of (one's reputation); failing to live up to (one's appearance); falling through (e.g. of a plan)

1

property; fortune; means; assets

1

Great Leap Forward (failed attempt to industrialize China and increase agricultural production, from 1958-1960); significant breakthrough; great strides

2

heavy industry

1

inferior goods; faulty item

1

report; information

1

forcibly; against one's will

1

national treasury

1

snapping back (at someone); lashing out (despite being in the wrong); counterblast; counteroffensive; backlash

2

proletarian

1

(China's) Cultural Revolution (1966-76)

4

putting into operation; invocation

1

to pledge allegiance; to swear an oath of allegiance; to take an oath of allegiance

1

(Chinese) Red Guards

1

mass movement; popular movement

1

violence; mayhem

1

to estimate

1

millions; several million; a few million

1

diplomatic

1

becoming more serious or severe; aggravation; intensification

1

(right of) representation; right to represent (e.g. a company)

1

visit to China

1

intimacy; friendship

1

to imitate; to follow; to emulate

1

Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997); Teng Hsiao-p'ing

2

Reform and Opening-up (Chinese economic policy)

1

market principle

1