refugee capital
Britishnoun
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When China's Nationalists retreated from their refugee capital of Chungking last November, Acting President Li Tsung-jen did not go with them.
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The refugee capital is now estimated at $70 to $100 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
More than 100,000 homeless peasants and villagers have flooded Binh Dinh province alone, transforming Qui Nhon, the provincial capital, into the refugee capital of the country.
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Reparations problems and the return home of refugee capital are to be expected.
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By 1944 they were young old China hands stationed in Chiang Kai-shek's wartime refugee capital, Chungking, as political officers on the staff of Lieut.
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