The Red Cross Society of China (中国红十字会) is the national Red Cross Society in the People's Republic of China.
Read more about Red Cross Society Of China: Origins and History Before 1949, After The Proclamation of The People's Republic of China in 1949
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—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)
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They hung the thief upon the cross:
But now, alas!—I say’t with grief—
They hang the cross upon the thief.”
—Anonymous. “On a Nomination to the Legion of Honour,” from Aubrey Stewart’s English Epigrams and Epitaphs (1897)
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