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NPC National People’s Congress
NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty
ODA Overseas Development Assistance (Japan)
PAP People’s Action Party (Singapore)
PAVN People’s Army of Vietnam
PBSC Politburo Standing Committee
PKI Parti Kommunist Indonesia (Indonesian communist party)
PNTR Permanent Normal Trade Relations
POW prisoner of war
PTBT Partial (nuclear) Test Ban Treaty
PRC People’s Republic of China
PRD Pearl River Delta
PUWP Polish United Worker’s Party (Poland communist party)
RF Russian Federation
ROC Republic of China
ROK Republic of Korea
S&T science and technology
SA-IOR South Asia-India Ocean Region
SCO Shanghai Cooperative Organization
SEATO South East Asia Treaty Organization
SSTC State Science and Technology Commission
SUP Socialist Unity Party (East German communist party)
SEZ Special Economic Zone
SDP Social Democratic Party (West Germany)
SRV Socialist Republic of Vietnam
SOE state-owned enterprise
SEF Straits Exchange Foundation (Taipei)
TAO Taiwan Affairs Office
TALSG Taiwan Affairs Leading Small Group
TPR Taiwan Policy Review
TAR Tibet Autonomous Region
TMD Theater Missile Defense
TRA Taiwan Relations Act
UAE United Arab Emirates
UN United Nations
UNCLOS United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
UNPKO United Nations Peacekeeping Operation
UNSC United Nations Security Council
UNTAC United Nations Transitional Authority Cambodia
US United States [of America]
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
VOA Voice of America
VOMR Voice of the Malayan Revolution