Greater China

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  1. The whole territory of China, including China proper, Tibet, Manchuria, Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia.
    — Greater China is traversed by two immense mountain systems, which have their rise in the plateau of the Pamirs (q.v.), and which throw off numerous chains as they cross the continent.
  2. The historic territories of China or its tributary states, or the imagined future territories of China, including e.g. Taiwan, Outer Mongolia, Indochina, and Outer Manchuria.
    — Chinese imperial power for centuries exacted tribute from much of what is now Burma and Indo-China, and Chinese Communist maps today include these areas in "greater China."
  3. Majority Chinese-speaking territories in East Asia taken as a whole.
    — [Robert] Theleen's theme is investing with entrepreneurs in "Greater China"—by which he means the region of 120 million Chinese encompassing Taiwan, Hong Kong and China's two southern provinces of Guangdong and Fujian, all of which are rapidly becoming one integrated economy.
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