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The issue was caught up in a mayoral campaign and a 2001 ballot measure calling for the Valley to secede from the city.

A year after Chen was re-elected in 2004, China passed a so-called anti-secession law, declaring China's right to use "non-peaceful means" against Taiwan if it tried to "secede" from China.

Ron Kaye, a longtime Los Angeles Daily News editor known for civically inspired muckraking and boosting the San Fernando Valley — including a failed bid for the Valley to secede from L.A. — has died.

For more than 100 years, residents fought to keep it that way, once threatening to secede from California if addresses were imposed.

Dodik has made several such threats in the past to have the Serb-controlled territories secede from Bosnia and join with neighboring Serbia.