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Chinese government allows to use both the Russian ruble and the yuan, in Suifenhe, China as a legal tender. It is the first time in the history of PRC when the usage of a foreign currency as a payment for goods and services is allowed on its territory. I suggest to add the Russian ruble to the list of currencies along with the yuan in the same fashion as it's done for Panama and US dollar, but with a footnote that its usage is only allowed in a certain region. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.52.141.26 (talk • contribs) 11:24, November 26, 2014

China is number one by both nominal total GDP and purchasing power parity not number two. Please edit ????. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Swax2 (talk • contribs) 16:44, December 19, 2014

Why is a protected page? Why not make a edits to a China? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.239.115.205 (talk) 16:51, 17 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You can always request a user to make edits for you. I hope that this helps. 😉 --Codename Alex (talk) 07:52, 15 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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There seems to be a link to twitch.tv/lrhlive on the whole article:

HTML affected: <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/lrhlive" rel="nofollow"><img alt="Arimaa-border.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Arimaa-border.png" width="7000" height="7000" data-file-width="18" data-file-height="18"></a>

Not sure on how this made it's way here, it's not a browser issue, tested it on Firefox and Chrome. Also not an OS issue, tested it with Linux (Ubuntu) and Windows (8).

--Unrealzocker (talk) 04:50, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I'm seeing the same thing. Definitely needs looking into. 2601:644:0:DBD0:F0BF:80DE:142:9ECF (talk) 06:16, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That was a very strange error. It seems to be fine now. Whiff of greatness (talk) 07:52, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What was the error? I haven't seen "twitch.tv" in the source. How did it get there? --Unrealzocker (talk) 18:16, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#Strangely compromised page. It was problem with a template, not this page. If it were still a problem, now the template is fixed, purging the page would remove it here but that presumably has been done.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 18:35, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

expand some source more about the recent events between China and India?.AlfaRocket (talk) 13:34, 29 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No need, it's too insignificant to be included in this article which is covering the whole things about a country rather than international relations. --123.161.169.118 (talk) 00:54, 12 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Wikipedians! I am a student at Rice University, and I am thinking about editing this article as part of my class (Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities). I am currently interested in learning about political repression in China and adding what I learn into Wikipedia articles. I would like to contribute to this page by adding information to the subsection "Sociopolitical issues, human rights, and reform" under Politics. I would add a link to the "Censorship in China" article, flesh out information about how China has treated its political activists (such as Liu Xiaobo), and add how citizens have been going around China's different forms of censorship. I have already been doing some reading, and a list of relevant resources are on my user page if you are interested! Please let me know if you have any suggestions about the direction I should take this! RiceStudent (talk) 12:45, 20 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Maybe you can learn about how some factory-owners treat workers and break the labor law (even the CHINESE labor law!). The unionist may suffered more than other activists nowadays.wkbreaker 14:25, September 2017 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wkbreaker (talk • contribs)

The etymology section has recently been revised to stress the theory that the word China is derived from “Qin,” the name of the first imperial dynasty. Although this theory is certainly popular, it is refuted by the fact that Sanskrit usage predates the Qin dynasty by several centuries. The theory dates to the 17th century, before the development of modern philology. It apparently falls into the category of “too good to check.” Oxford English Dictionary, the most authoritative source on these matters, traces the derivation to Sanskrit Cīna, a word that has been used to refer to China since at least the second century AD. For earlier history, it directs us to a journal article by Lecoupiere. Lecoupiere rejects the Qin theory and argues that usage in the Indian epics refers to a state other than China. That is to say, the word was repurposed sometime after the Indians began to receive silk from China and wondered what land it came from. See Geoff Wade’s “The name China and the Polity of Yelang” for a detailed and up to date discussion of this issue. Great scott (talk) 05:15, 22 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Please change

" Under Xi, the Chinese government began large-scale efforts to reform its economy,[128][129] which has suffered from structural instabilities and slowing growth.[130][131][132][133]"

to

" Under Xi, the Chinese government began large-scale efforts to reform its economy,[128][129] which has suffered from structural instabilities and relatively slowing growth.[130][131][132][133]".

Reason: China's economic growth rate still considerable compared with other others' which is why I propose to add the word "relatively". 106.185.25.41 (talk) 09:53, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Not done. What you have proposed is neither good English nor clear what it means; "relatively" needs some indication of what it is relative to. The article already covers the country’s high economic growth, both in that section and in the Economy section, so it does not need restating in such a way.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 03:06, 28 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There's an image in section 4.4 simply captioned "Diplomatic relations with China" that is color coded. I would like to request that the caption is updated with a key to represent what each color means. Because this page is protected, I am unable to do so. The file itself has a key, it's just not listed in the caption. Here is a link to the image in question. 24.207.148.200 (talk) 20:21, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that was odd. It's a common misconception that the PRC dates to 1 Oct. since that became the basis for the country's National Day but the new state was actually proclaimed a few days earlier on 21 Sept., which occasionally gets remembered (at embassy shindigs &c) as "Chinese Independence Day". What's strange is that the source for 1 Oct. in the current page already made it clear that the date was 21 Sept. I know this is a highly-trafficked page and no urge to get into an edit war, so added two further sources as well. — LlywelynII 04:01, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Super edit! Such a pleasure to see a popularly held misconception debunked. sirlanz 05:12, 9 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]