ON 22 DECEMBER IN CHINESE HISTORY, HONG KONG AND TAIWAN
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Updated on December 22, 2018
880: Luoyang, eastern capital of the Tang Dynasty, is captured by rebel leader Huang Chao during the reign of Emperor Xizong
http://totallyhistory.com/huang-chao-rebellion/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Xizong_of_Tang
1183: Birth of Chagatai Khan, Mongol ruler, who died on July 1, 1242
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagatai_Khan
1769: Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769) ends with an uneasy truce
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Burmese_War_(1765%E2%80%931769)
1945: General George C. Marshall arrives in Chongqing to try to get the Communists and Nationalists to agree to a cease-fire and enter into a coalition government
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm8hU4m_8tY
1960: Birth of Wakin Chau (Zhou Huajian), Hong Kong singer
http://cheryltlh.blogspot.fr/2007/06/biography.html
1968: During the Cultural Revolution, the People’s Daily publish the instructions of Mao Zedong “The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty” in the frame of the Down to the Countryside Movement
http://www.wisegeek.com/in-china-what-was-the-down-to-the-countryside-movement.htm
http://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/down-to-the-countryside/
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/11747.html
1971: Soviet Union attacks Chinese policy toward Vietnam
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/soviet-union-attacks-chinese-policy-toward-vietnam
1972: China announces the establishment of diplomatic relations with Australia and New-Zeland
1978: End of the 3rd plenum of the XIe Central Committee of the CCP (opened on 18th). Rehabilitation of the Tian’anmen April 1976 events and of leaders victims of the Cultural Revolution
2009: Beijing and Paris ink deals on nuclear energy and aviation, an indication of improved relations a year after the French president soured ties by publicly embracing the Dalai Lama
2012: Taiwan condemned over executions. Taiwan has executed six death row inmates, the first use of the death penalty this year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-20822542