Editing Martial law (section)

===China===
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In China, martial law in the [[Beiyang government]] could be dated back to the final year of the [[Qing dynasty]]. The outline of a 1908 draft constitution—modeled on [[Japan]]'s [[Meiji Constitution]]—included provisions for martial law. The [[Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1912)|Provisional Government of the Republic of China]] promulgated the [[Provisional Constitution of the Republic of China|Provisional Constitution]] in March 1911, which authorized the [[President of the Republic of China|President]] to declare martial law in times of emergency. The ''Martial Law Declaration Act'' were issued by the [[Nationalist Government]] later in 1920s and amended in 1940s. Following [[World War II]], the island of Taiwan came back to [[Republic of China (1912-1949)|China]]'s control given the impending withdrawal of [[Imperial Japanese Army|Japanese forces]] and [[Taiwan under Japanese rule|colonial government]]. Martial law was declared first in 1947 in [[Taiwan Province]] after the [[February 28 incident]], then again in 1949 as the [[Chinese Civil War]] was also raging across the country despite the democracy promised in the [[Constitution of the Republic of China]] (the central government refused to implement the constitution on Taiwan until after 1949).

After the [[Kuomintang|Nationalist]]-led central government of China lost control of the mainland to the [[Chinese Communist Party]] and retreated to Taiwan in 1949, the perceived need to suppress Communist activities in Taiwan was utilised as a rationale for not lifting martial law until thirty-eight years later in 1987, just prior to the death of then President [[Chiang Ching-kuo]]. Taiwan's period of martial law was one of the longest in modern history, after that of Syria (1967–2011).<ref name="reuters20110421" />

Martial law was imposed in [[Beijing]] in 1989 following the [[Tiananmen Square protests of 1989]] by the Communist-ruled government on mainland China.