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It is generally easier for Hong Kong passport holders to enter Taiwan than those with mainland Chinese passports, who must also apply for special permission to travel there.

From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2026

The drop was particularly steep outside mainland China, with US revenue down by at least 70%.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

The review of the General Mills’ business follows its decision in June to sell shops it owns under the Haagen-Dazs brand in mainland China to an investor group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

He got an early taste of activism at 13, protesting against plans for a high-speed rail link to mainland China.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

But the motorboat had gone back to the mainland.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

Zoologists provide evidence that fewer animal species live on islands than on nearby mainlands.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

The Berlin-based ethnographer Alexa Clay, who studied change agents in her book, “The Misfit Economy,” talks about mainlands, islands and peninsulas.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016

The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all found nowhere else but on their island, yet display distant relationships to ancestral species on mainlands.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

Almost all fishing is now carried out at the surface or on the bottoms of the continental shelves that jut from the world's mainlands.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond