Those rules also applied to investors from Hong Kong, who are still considered foreign because Hong Kong is governed separately.
Hong Kong, a former British colony that is now a special administrative region of China, is governed separately from the mainland.
China considers Taiwan part of its sovereign territory and has long said that it will attack if the island, which is governed separately, were to declare formal independence.
Sotheby's and Christie's have been operating in Hong Kong for several decades and have seen their business explode in the city, which is governed separately.
Because Jewish-Gentile relations in the land that the Jews considered their own were often uneasy, Jewish areas were usually governed separately from Gentile areas.
Taiwan's current status, governed separately but claimed by China as part of its sovereign territory, is maintained in part by an American commitment to defend it should Beijing carry out an attack.
After a four-year schism, during which Ḥamās and Fatah governed separately in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, respectively, Palestinian officials announced in April 2011 that Ḥamās and Fatah had reached a reconciliation agreement in negotiations mediated by Egypt.
He believed that Africans should be governed separately from the white settlers and that African land-tenure systems should be maintained in the reserves (which became the basic approach in South Africa during the apartheid era of the 20th century), but he provoked opposition from white settlers who coveted further African land.
Taiwan and China have been governed separately since the end of a civil war in 1949.
The areas to the river's north, North-Western and North-Eastern Rhodesia, were governed separately, and amalgamated in 1911 to form Northern Rhodesia.
