But this alliance ended when China became a communist country in the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

The official Communist Party-controlled All-China Federation of Trade Unions has sent in officials to mediate in many of the strikes.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

He also visited a cemetery for Chinese soldiers killed in the Korean War, when China supported its Communist allies in North Korea.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

That was one reason China communist came to power.

FORBES: U.S.-Japan Security Alliance Is Obsolete Leaving Japan Caught between China and the U.S. in a New Asian Order

The government's attempts to ensure stability by appealing to a sense of national pride are likely to prove far more difficult in the Himalayan region because of its ambiguous relationship with China before Communist troops took control in 1950.

ECONOMIST: The most serious unrest in years shakes the Tibetan capital

Once, it was China's New York, a go-go capitalist city poised to teach Communist China how to catch up in business.

FORBES: One country, one system