The IRS is empowered and entitled to prosecute U.S. tax frauds and U.S. taxpayers, not to pursue changes in foreign rules and regulations or to threaten foreign financial institutions (unless they commit such frauds).
But the Vietnamese public has always held Gen Giap in high esteem and remembered the Ho Chi Minh trail as crucial in ending foreign rule.
The term neocolonialism was first used after World War II to refer to the continuing dependence of former colonies on foreign countries, but its meaning soon broadened to apply, more generally, to places where the power of developed countries was used to produce a colonial-like exploitation for instance, in Latin America, where direct foreign rule had ended in the early 19th century.
Conscription of Malagasy soldiers to fight for France in World War I strengthened resentment of foreign rule, and in the interwar period these nationalist organizations proliferated.
Both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism were born in the fight against foreign rule.
The country had just re-emerged from long years of foreign rule, in which the Russians had been the hardest of masters.
But it rapidly spread as a rebellion against foreign rule in which even Muslim jihadists made common cause with Hindus.
In a country under foreign rule for centuries, where the atrocities of the war are still fresh in the collective memory, national identity gains a new importance.
One possible explanation for the Dutch royal house's abiding popularity is its close association with freedom from foreign rule: first, in the early 19th Century, that of the French under Napoleon, and more recently, in 1945, that of Nazi Germany.
Through the 1890s, as Russian control over the duchy grew increasingly oppressive, Sibelius produced a series of works reflecting Finnish resistance to foreign rule, culminating in the tone poem Finlandia.
