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Concludes that although the more subtle diplomacy of Deng Xiaoping contrasts sharply with Mao Zedong's bombastic style, there is little difference in the goal: the full incorporation of Hong Kong and Macao into the Chinese system with Chinese Communist economic, political, social and military dominance. The lure of both of these prosperous, selfsufficient entities to China's rulers is obvious. (CP)

The island province of Taiwan became the seat of the Nationalist Chinese government in 1949. The communists, who control the People's Republic of China, have vowed continually, as one of their major foreign policy objectives, to bring Taiwan under their absolute control, to 'reunify' Taiwan with the mainland under Communist terms. Considers issues involved. (SJO)

Argues that Tibet is evidence that Deng's new policy of 'liberalization', comprising changes designed to strengthen the Chinese economy, does not differ in its ultimate expansionist objectives from the goals of Mao Zedong, who accomplished the invasion and subjugation of Tibet. (Abstract amended)

Summarizes recent research for a book in progress. Of 4,000 black Americans quitting slavery in the war of 1812 through the British navy, 600 who confronted their ex-masters as the Corps of Colonial Marines are unduly ignored in the records of black American resistance to slavery. Describes how the first documentary account of the corps includes personnel hitherto missing from the annals of Trinidad and the Royal Marines. (Original abstract-amended)