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People's Republic of China
noun
- a country in East Asia. 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). : Beijing. : PRC, P.R.C.
People's Republic of China
1- The government of China set up in 1949 after the victory of the communist forces of Mao Zedong . The People's Republic ruled the mainland of China, forcing the government of Nationalist China (see also Nationalist China ) into exile on the island of Taiwan . For years, many Western nations, especially the United States, refused to recognize the People's Republic as the government of mainland China; instead, they exchanged ambassadors only with Nationalist China. The United States recognized the People's Republic as the government of China in 1979.
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PRC is short for the People's Republic of China.
Last October, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said hacks targeting two major US presidential campaigns were carried out by "actors affiliated with the People's Republic of China".
In June, Donald Trump's pick for US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said he had "grave ethics concerns" about Shein's "deep ties to the People's Republic of China": "Slave labour, sweatshops, and trade tricks are the dirty secrets behind Shein's success," he wrote.
But Congress and the Biden administration said the Chinese-owned platform gives the People’s Republic of China access to “vast swaths of data about tens of millions of Americans,” which it “could use for espionage or blackmail.”
Beijing has repeatedly vowed to "return" this self-governing democracy to the mainland, even though it has never been ruled by Beijing at any point since the Communists came to power and the People's Republic of China came into being in 1949.
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