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C. Taiwan is an island off the coast of China that is democratically self-ruled. China claims it as a province with no right to state-to-state ties. The United States broke official ties with Taiwan in 1979 in order to establish diplomatic relations with China, but Taiwan has remained an important, if unofficial, American ally in East Asia.
D. Australia, Britain and China were U.S. allies against Japan in World War II. Allied forces drove back Japanese who had seized control of some of the Solomon Islands in the months after they bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Japanese control of the islands threatened military sea routes between the United States and Australia.
D. China has claimed much of the South China Sea, including areas also claimed by Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Indonesia and Taiwan. The disputes also have included confrontations between the naval ships of China and those of the United States, Britain and France.
B. Britain declared a “protectorate” over the islands in 1893 to stop the kidnapping of islanders to work on South Pacific sugar plantations. Except for the Japan’s World War II occupation, the British ruled the islands until independence.