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Chinese Dragon in Cape Verde

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Apr 20, 2013
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On April 25, 1976, as the People's Republic of China in Beijing jousted for recognition with the Republic of China on Taiwan, the tiny Republic of Cape Verde, which consists of 10 islands 570 km off the coast of Western Africa in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and hosts about half a million Portuguese-speaking people, made a fateful decision.

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