COMMUNIST CHINAとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Communist +‎ China.

固有名詞

Communist China

1. The People’s Republic of China.
   • 1963, W. Averell Harriman, “Introduction”, in China (LIFE World Library)‎, New York: Time Incorporated, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7, column 1:

     An ambitious and aggressive Communist China represents a serious threat to us and to all of its neigbors.

   • 1963, Dwight Eisenhower, Mandate for Change 1953-1956‎, Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 214:

     But given these difficulties the work was hard and long that year. On May 28, for example, the Senate Appropriations Committee reported out a bill with a rider barring any American contribution to the United Nations in the next fiscal year if Communist China were admitted to membership. The chairman, Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, told reporters that only three of the twenty-three committee members had voted against that rider.

   • 1964, John F. Kennedy, A Nation of Immigrants‎, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 78–79:

     In 1962 a special law had to be passed to permit the immigration of several thousand Chinese refugees who had escaped from Communist China to Hong Kong.

   • 1969, Ezra Vogel, Canton under Communism: Programs and Politics in a Provincial Capital 1949-1968‎, Harvard University Press, page ix:

     If this book is ever read in Communist China, the readers may be heartened to know that though it bears the name of an individual author and therefore reflects the persistence of bourgeois individualism, it is nonetheless a product of collective effort.

   • 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎, Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 343:

     From Communist China there was only ominous silence. Except for sterile and sporadic talks between the American and Chinese ambassadors in Warsaw, a gulf of twenty years of noncommunication separated the world's most populous nation from the world's most powerful nation.

   • 2001, Barbara Olson, “The Final Frenzy: Finishing Touches on the Legend”, in The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House‎ (Politics/Current Affairs), Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2:

     The nation was also at peace. The Cold War had ended before Bill Clinton took the helm, and his presidency had experienced nothing that could be called a major international crisis. Turmoil in the Balkans and Middle East was nothing new. Iraq required attention but no massive deployment of Americans. There had been devastating, but fortunately isolated, terrorist attacks in Africa and in Oklahoma City. But the North Koreans had not invaded South Korea, nor had they lobbed one of their missiles in our direction. Communist China did not invade Taiwan. Libya remained quiet.

   • 2015, Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America‎, Threshold Editions, →ISBN, page 54:

     Fortuitously, the Soviet delegate was not in attendance, having begun a boycott previously over the UN’s refusal to seat a delegate from Communist China.

   • 2020 January 11, “The state of Taiwan: Five things to know”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 11 January 2020:

     In a historical irony, the modern-day version of the Kuomintang is the party that now pushes much warmer ties with communist China.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Communist China.
2. (historical) Those areas of China controlled by the Communist Party of China, and the Chinese Red Army.

同意語

• Red China

参考

• Free China

Further reading

• “Communist China”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “Communist China”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Communist China” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2025.