There is no question that China has become more assertive in its pursuit of regional goals like unification with Taiwan and control of offshore waters and mineral rights in the South China Sea.
It is also not applicable for unification of regional height datums.
During this time of unification, each regional culture retained their cultural characteristics.
The South Korean leader's position is that the United States military presence is needed for regional security even after the unification of the Korean peninsula.
In Italy, clubs such as Fiorentina, Inter Milan, SSC Napoli, and AS Roma embody deep senses of civic and regional pride that predate Italian unification in the 19th century.
The Kuomintang (KMT) party in China launched a unification campaign against regional warlords and nominally unified China in the mid-1920s, but was soon embroiled in a civil war against its former Chinese communist allies.
Domestically, Harald crushed all local and regional opposition, and outlined the territorial unification of Norway under a national governance.
It renamed itself the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), salvaged many of its assets (in ways that critics have called criminal) and emerged soon enough as a kind of regional protest party for the discontents of unification.
Whereas most Italians at the time of national unification had spoken only their regional dialect, millions of people now spoke standard Italian, which they learned in school or in the army or for use as a lingua franca in the cities.
