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Sino-Soviet border conflict
The Sino-Soviet border conflict (1969), also called the Zhenbao/Damansky Island crisis, was a seven-month undeclared border war between China and the USSR, marked by nuclear threats, October 1969 border talks, and final demarcation in 2008.
Sino-Soviet conflict over the Chinese Eastern Railway
The Sino-Soviet conflict over the Chinese Eastern Railway (中东路事件) was a 1929 border war between China and the Soviet Union over the railway in Manchuria.
Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact (中苏互不侵犯条约), signed at Nanking August 21, 1937 by Wang Chung-Hui and Bogomolov: mutual non-aggression, no aid to a third-party aggressor, precursor to major Soviet aid to Nationalist China.
Sino-Soviet split
The Sino-Soviet split, or Sino-Soviet dispute, was the gradual breakdown of relations between the Soviet Union and China, becoming public in 1960 and turning hostile.
Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance
The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance (中蘇友好同盟條約) was a 1945 treaty between the Republic of China and the Soviet Union, concluded as the Soviet Union prepared to enter the war against Japan.
Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance
The Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Alliance and Mutual Assistance (中苏友好同盟互助条约), signed in Moscow 14 February 1950, was a 30-year alliance treaty between the USSR and the PRC with mutual military assistance against Japan or its allies, a US$300 million Soviet loan, and return of Port Arthur and the Chinese Changchun Railway; it lapsed in 1980.
Sino-Tibetan languages
Sino-Tibetan (Han-Tibetan, Trans-Himalayan) language family: Sinitic plus 200-300 Tibeto-Burman languages, 1.1-1.4 billion speakers, classification disputes, Proto-Sino-Tibetan homeland, and typological range.
Sino-Tibetan style
Sino-Tibetan style is an art-historical term for Buddhist art produced in Chinese imperial workshops that fuses Tibetan Buddhist iconography with Chinese materials, techniques, and imperial aesthetics.
Sino-Vietnamese War (中越战争)
The Sino-Vietnamese War (中越战争), or Chinese-Vietnamese War, was a war between China and Vietnam in 1979, following Vietnam's invasion of Cambodia.
Sino–Kazakh War
Sino–Kazakh War: the 1756–1757 Qing military conflict with the Kazakh Khanate during the conquest of Dzungaria, ending in Abylai Khan's submission, tribute missions, and the 1759–1796 silk-for-horse trade.
Sinoatrial block
Sinoatrial block (SA block) is a cardiac conduction disturbance in which the sinus node's impulse fails to reach the atria, so no P wave appears on the ECG.
Sinoatrial node
The sinoatrial node, also called the SA node, is a cluster of cells in the right atrium that generates the heartbeat's electrical rhythm as the heart's natural pacemaker.
Sinoatrial node dysfunction and deafness
Sinoatrial node dysfunction and deafness (SANDD, OMIM 614896) is an ultra-rare autosomal recessive CACNA1D channelopathy combining congenital severe-to-profound deafness with bradycardia, syncope, and pacemaker-based management.
Sinocelltech (西比曼生物科技（上海）有限公司) (西比曼生物科技)
Cellular Biomedicine Group (西比曼生物科技集团) is a clinical-stage cell therapy company based in Zhangjiang, Shanghai, developing CAR-T and TIL immunotherapies for blood cancers and solid tumors.
Sinocelltech Group (神州细胞)
Sinocelltech Group (神州细胞) is a Beijing-based biopharmaceutical company founded by Xie Liangzhi that develops monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, and vaccines, listed on Shanghai's STAR Market since 2020.
Sinochem
Sinochem is a Chinese state-owned chemical and energy conglomerate formed in 2021 by merging Sinochem Group and ChemChina, descending from a trading house founded in 1950.
Sinodik of the disgraced
The Sinodik of the disgraced (Синодик опальных) is a commemorative list of about 3,300 people executed under Ivan the Terrible, compiled in 1583 for monastery prayers.
Sinofuturism
Sinofuturism: a concept and aesthetic labeling China as the future, popularized by Lawrence Lek's 2016 video essay Sinofuturism (1839–2046 AD), analyzed as inverse techno-orientalism and accelerationism.
Sinoma Lithium Battery Separator (Zhongcai Lithium Film)
Sinoma Lithium Battery Separator (中材锂膜) is a Chinese maker of wet-process lithium battery separators, founded in 2016 as a subsidiary of Sinoma Science & Technology.
Sinomab Bioscience (中国抗体)
Sinomab Bioscience (中国抗体) is a Hong Kong biopharmaceutical company developing monoclonal antibodies for immune diseases, founded in 2001 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2019.
Sinomach
Sinomach (中国机械工业集团有限公司, China National Machinery Industry Corporation) is a Chinese central state-owned enterprise supervised by SASAC, formed from former machinery-ministry institutes in 1997 and employing over 100,000 people.
Sinon (software)
Sinon.JS, commonly installed as sinon, is a standalone JavaScript library for test doubles, providing spies, stubs, and mocks that work with any unit testing framework.
Sinop, Mato Grosso
Sinop, Mato Grosso: Brazilian municipality founded 14 September 1974 by the Sociedade Imobiliária Noroeste do Paraná colonization company on BR-163; fourth most populous city of Mato Grosso, 231,452 inhabitants (IBGE 2026), regional agribusiness and services hub.
SinoPac Financial
SinoPac Financial Holdings (永丰金融控股) is a Taiwanese financial holding company created in 2002 through Taiwan's first bank–securities merger, centered on Bank SinoPac and SinoPac Securities.
Sinope (moon)
Sinope is a small retrograde irregular moon of Jupiter, about 19 km in radius, discovered by Seth Barnes Nicholson at Lick Observatory in 1914 and named for a nymph who outwitted Zeus.
Sinopec
Sinopec, formally China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, is a Chinese state-owned energy company, the world's largest oil refiner, ranked sixth in the 2025 Fortune Global 500.
Sinopharm Group
Sinopharm Group is a Hong Kong-listed Chinese pharmaceutical distributor and retailer, established in Shanghai in 2003 and listed in 2009, running the commerce arm of state-owned CNPGC.
Sinopharm Wuhan inactivated COVID-19 vaccine (WIBP)
WIBP-CorV is the Sinopharm Wuhan inactivated COVID-19 vaccine (Vero cell), developed with the CAS Wuhan Institute of Virology from strain WIV04; conditionally approved in China February 2021, phase 3 efficacy 72.8% against symptomatic COVID-19, WHO EUL dossier withdrawn in 2022.
Sinorhizobium
Sinorhizobium (syn. Ensifer) is a genus of alphaproteobacterial rhizobia, gram-negative aerobic rods, that fixes nitrogen in legume nodules; S. meliloti inoculates alfalfa and S. fredii nodulates soybean.
Sinorhizobium meliloti
Sinorhizobium meliloti (syn. Rhizobium meliloti, Ensifer meliloti), an alphaproteobacterial soil bacterium fixing nitrogen in alfalfa and Medicago nodules; model symbiont with a tripartite 1021 genome and an open pangenome.