East+Asia



Includes: -China -Mongolia -Hong Kong -Japan -Macao -North Korea -South Korea -Taiwan

Helpful Sites: China Daily Newseum The CIA World Factbook

Colonization: Colonization in East Asia started when a majority of European countries started to proceed toward Asian countries in order to expand their markets especially because the routes in which the Europeans and Asia were taking intertwined very nicely. with the new expansion and booming business more and more Europeans began coming to places like China and Japan. during the sixteenth century many missionaries began to also colonize in China bringing Christianity but also tons of people that wanted to learn about their culture, science, and the how it has come to the place it is today. Colonization continued on and abundant amounts of people still continued to come to China. In the nineteenth century China faced many wars such as the First and Second Opium Wars and a war with Japan over Korea all of which China lost. This then opened up trade for Europeans which caused an expansion for colonization all over East Asia which continued and has continued to today where thousands of people "colonize" East Asia every year.



Migration: Migration throughout East Asia has been very prominent through much of our century. China and it's surrounding countries have been stationed in the world for a very long time. In places like China with it's vast regions of rural areas, people often tend to migrate all around the country. In fact, during the 60's and 70's China sent some of their youth to the country in order to proportionalize the people. This had a backward effect though because once the youth got old enough to go back to the city, a majority of them did. Most places in East Asia have kept their urban sides to them, mostly keeping farming as one of their main occupations, other then the abundance of factories of course. However, in their major cities like places like Hong Kong and Beijing, it has been abundantly clear what migration has done to them. As the world gets smaller due to the internet and vastly improving technology, there is much more travel and expansion of country. Since a majority of our goods are being exported from East Asia, businesses have flocked over there especially to their major cities. This group migration then changed their major cities into a cities that could possibly be seen in the United States to keep up with the growing westernized markets. When several people migrated from Asia to the Americas, they made lots of problems like mugging and discrimination. [|Several people from several regions in Asia encountered such problems, and it was overwhelming.]

Relations with the U.N.

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East Asia has been making the majority of headlines recently. Between the [|nuclear warfare],[| google dropping it's service], and [|Toyota's recall], China, North Korea, and Japan have had their fair share of events. As North Korea continues to make advances in Nuclear War fare and the starvation of their people, the UN is limited due to the power China has in the Security Council. When it comes down to the wire, China will always be backing North Korea due to it's vicinity and the weapons that they entail. In[| 2006]North Korea decided that it would be alright if they tested Nuclear Warheads in Gilju. Despite the severe remarks that governments around the world were making towards them to not do said tests, they continued anyway. In July before the tests there was an embargo against them to prevent any exports or imports of missiles. After the tests, every country in the UN condemned them for them, but Russia and China decided that they did not want to press military offenses against North Korea. Also in July, the UN did manage to freeze assets to certain North Korean members and businesses, who were suspected to be linked to nuclear bomb programs and the like, with China and Russia backing them. In more recent news, China is not only leading the race in clean energy, which is quite a feat for them being the more overly populated and polluted country, but they are also facing major news coverage over Google threatening (and likely going through with) to stop blocking certain search terms and events that they don't allow their citizens to know about. It is a huge moral step, that a //business// would shut off possible profit. China and Relations with the IMF: Naadir* Over the years China has had some awkward and somewhat fraught relations with the IMF. Some of the strange relations between China and the IMF stemed from its interest in using the IMF's facilities as a international organization to issue Special Drawing Rights assets to help Beijing diversify away from the US dollar. Beijing is well aware of would could take place with relation to inflation and is beginning to get world conformation as the value of the US dollar is eroding. This could cause a future in which the US dollar is essentially stripped of its historical role as the international currency replaces it. A big reason for this is the economic success of China after the heavy decline in the years 1997-1998. Reluctantly China cares enough about the world financial system to support the IMF."The IMF and China have been going head-to-head in the developing world. The IMF and its sister project lending organization, the World Bank, have historically demanded conformity to Western requirements for transparency, deregulation, and denationalization - structural reforms - as a precondition for financial assistance. As long as the West was able to maintain a de facto monopoly on foreign assistance this approach won the acquiescence of the targeted states - if not happy economic results." With this has came the agreement of China to purchase $50 billion in notes from the fund.The agreement is the first of its kind and makes China's steps towards shifting the focus away from the US treasuries market.

Environment & Energy: According to this article, the Chinese are starting to get sick and tired of their polluted environment. They decided to make a "solar street" located in Beijing, where all the buildings, street lights, and so on would receive their power form solar energy. They also plan to make a site in Xuanwu Park, where there would be solar-powered generators for lighting, heating, and refrigeration. A lot of factors give the Chinese an advantage in solar power. Two thirds of Chinese territory receives sunlight for 2,000 hours each year. Hopefully, this will the Chinese to use solar power instead of coal. But I don't think that will happen right away.

In a recent article there is talk that [|East Asian Pollution Driving Western North America Ozone] because of the fact that coal is cheaper then nuclear power it is China's fuel of choice but it also more harmful on the air which is flowing over the Pacific Ocean and steadily into North America. Because what is cheaper is always more harmful and no one wants to dish out the money for what is better for the environment (EVIL!), there will be a lot more pollution in the air from China to come.

Japan is another country in East Asia that has come to be a major country in need of energy conservation. Apparently, in [|1973] during the energy crisis Japan finally got serious about their energy conservation. They have become quite possibly the leading country in the entire world for energy conservation. They have created many new inventions to help people get on track with saving electricity. A man living in Japan [|tells the story] of how only in Japan he is able to use a fuel cell that is the size of a cabinet in order to turn hydrogen into electricity and also turn cold water into hot. It is insanely fascinating. Although, Japan has worked wonders with in-home appliances that are energy efficient like a refrigerator that beeps if it is not shut all the way as well as an energy navigator that tries to produce heat towards humans, it has also done wonders in terms of wide scale energy saving. In [|2001] Japan finally opened it's largest Hydroelectric power plant in Kazunogawa.

According to a recent article written by Evan Osnos on Beijing's crash program for clean energy. The movement began in 2001 and was actually there was just added significance paid to energy technology. Makes sense afterall China was once the largest oil exporter in East Asia and was creating about 200 cars per day and importing tons of barrels. The most significant problem was that China close to 8 percent of electricity from coal. This has caused the air to become a danger to the future of China's future stability while also hastening climate change. Most recently in 2006 China has made a huge effort help save the environment because it was rapidly becoming out of control. " Last year, the U.S. Embassy installed an air monitor on the roof of one of its buildings, and every hour it posts the results to a Twitter feed, with a score ranging from 1, which is the cleanest air, to 500, the dirtiest. American cities consider anything above 100 to be unhealthy. The rare times in which an American city has scored above 300 have been in the midst of forest fires. In these cases, the government puts out public-health notices warning that the air is “hazardous” and that everyone should avoid all physical activity outdoors. As I type this in Beijing, the Embassy’s air monitor says that today’s score is 500." This has clearly caused some concern and now seems as if China has almost doubled their efforts to help the environment and create clean energy. They have had any true significant impact as of yet but due plan to set targets for installing essential thing like wind turbines, solar panels and hydroelectric dams and were not shockingly higher than the goals set in the US.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/12/21/091221fa_fact_osnos

Science & Technology: South and south east Asia happen to be one of THE greatest places for technology and development. More specifically Japan is mostly known for it's automotive parts. Japan makes some of the fastest cars and engines. Many people in America order a V-TECH ( racing engine) For their cars. Japan is responsiable for Honda, Toyota, Nissian, Mazda and many others. The engine is not avilable in the USA because of the speeds it can reach. It can be found on EBAY. Japan is also a center for research and won the nobel peace prize for bringing in 1.3 billion dollars just in the research that they do. Japan is also said to have some of the most advanced weapons in NUC and street fighting.

Asian countries are the most bountiful for science and technology. Most technology created in these areas are not released into the USA for many years due to lack of interest and our country is sometimes simply not ready for the advanced technology that these countries have to offer us.

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China is planning to launch an unmanned space module next year. This is their first step in building an actual space station. Once they get the space lab up and running, they will be able to send astronauts up there to do some heavy zero gravity research.

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China and Japan both have respectable space programs, and appear to be capable of rivaling the United States. China four years ago sent its first astronaut into space, and is currently planning its first spacewalk, eventually sending a man to the moon. Japan is also determined to become a leader in the space industry. Both countries are scheduled to deploy lunar orbiters this summer. Unlike the political and nationalistic motivation for space exploration in during the Space Race, current space exploration is more motivated by economics. China is interested in the abundance of Helium-3, a radioisotope rare on Earth, in lunar soil, and whether in can be mined for commercial purposes.

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In Shanghai there is going to be a World Expo. Like there is every year but this year it will be different. They are going to power the whole space that the expo is being held at by wind turbines and solar power energy generators. They want to keep going what they had during the 2008 Bejing Olympics. So they will also be driving cars that run on electricty instead of gas.

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SASUKE VINCE EVANS I found a crazy awesome article on young japanese women. This would qualify as food science, it says some of them are driven to be skinny!! Can you believe that? In a nation of about 4 percent of obesity, there are still some women that prefer to be 80 pounds. Its interesting because there are so little fat people in my country( japan.) It states that Japanese women are ridiculously critical to one another, gives you some stats on the article, some background information on the origins of weight loss and gain in the country and more.

[]  Economy: Toyota is apparently cutting off its "work-sharing" with Britain. This is mostly due to the fact that the the Japanese are getting a lot requests for recalls with people from all over the world. Which means that someone must not be working up to speed namely...Britain. So this little break up will cause the loss of 750 jobs in Europe. []

The democratic people's republic of Korea is talking about how they have a lot of technology and Kim Jong II said " He stressed that if the DPRK is full of cutting-edge science and technology and its army equipped with them, great changes will take place and the DPRK will become a powerful, prospering country. He called upon the workers to bring about a great boost in the production of machine tools so that these goals can be achieved." He wants the economy to grow with times. When the things improve like technology the economy should improve.

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SASUKE VINCE EVANS GLOBE For one, the economy of Japan is the second largest in the world. Japan is actually facing lowered stock values, suffering from debt. The debt crisis in Japan is essentially steadily increasing due to money invested in poor and unnecessary resources like bridges and infrastructures like that.

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In other news, Japan may relinquish the title of being the second largest economy in the world and China may in fact replace us. China's economy has essentially been rising while Japans is slowly declining due to an abundance of aspects including debt, unwise spending and investments and so on. Unemployment has risen as of late in Japan as well, the economy has even decreased by 11 percent, so overall it isnt looking so bright for my Japanese brethren at the economic department.

** TRADE: ** Ever since 1997 financial crisis, East Asia has been struggling to regulate their trade, and get there products shipped as quickly and efficiently as China. For East Asia there is certain borders and extension that they have to obey for trade. One of the main products that East Asia trades happens to be Ilegal. It is the ivory that comes from Elephant Tusks. Ivory is very rare and worth large amounts of currency how ever Elephants are extremely endangered and protected which makes it difficult for East Asia to be open with the trade. Sine the 1997 issue, there has only been about a 10% increase in the importing and exporting of trade. To make up for the loss of American Trade, East Asia has come up with it's own system. The system is that they trade within each other in order to get intermediate products. However, some mass production products make there way to Japan which are sometimes then traded and sold to the United States.

SASUKE VINCE EVANS TRADE Trade relations between east asia and the us As you probably know the trade between china and the US is the most prolific and recurring trade in the world. A large sum of our goods come from china and japan. japan produces large amounts of oru products. []

this link that is provided grants you information on business relationships dealing with the US and japan more specifically in a commercial department. (just thought that would be an interesting bit of information) [] here is another article based on trade of beef between Tokyo and the US. Here is just one of many examples of trade going on between differing nations, and almost anything can be traded whether its goods, people, services, or objects.

East Asia is having an Aids problem. There are many people in China suffering from it. There are 133,741 people who suffer from aids in China. 75% of the people that are getting aids are adults. The rest is divided among teens and infants. The infants usually do not make it to age five. In china, the rate of reproduction is overly high. For each person with aids that is reproducing there is another child born with aids. Switch it up to North Korea. There is as of now NO health care in North Korea so those who are infected with Aids can not even get any time of help and end up dying within 3-5 years.
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TB is very contagious and the school districts in China are trying to make all of the children aware of TB so that they can take the proper precautions. More and more people are getting sick with TB. Every person that has TB and is infectious can infect 10 to 15 people each year. Since they are take the initiative to tell the children they are hoping that they will be able to bring the numbers down in the people that have TB. **

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 * East Asia has one of the scariest countries for Terrorism. This country is North Korea. Back in 2008 when Bush was president, he had North Korea dropped from the Terrorism list. North Korea has extremely dangerous weapons. If they are removed from the list then hopefully they can not be very hostile with the United States. The weapons that they have could blow up countries at the snap of a finger. When the USA decided that they should drop North Korea, they were mainly trying to resolve conflicts. **But personally, I think that Kim Jong Ill should be disposed of and eliminated.

Olaitan: According to the Korean news, there has been some sort of heavy struggle/war/conflict between anti-government protesters and Security officers in Bangkok. The conflict apparently got so violent that the prime minister of Thailand (a mister Abhisit Vejjajiva) had to address the nation saying that soldiers will be pulled out of the area to stop the violence. 10 people were killed in the last altercation between the two sides. The conflict has been going on for at least a month and this incident is what made the Prime Minister step in and put a stop to it once and for all. []

Vince globalization wiki notes security and terrorism in china China is an anti terrorist nation Eternal affairs minister Krishna S. looked for support from the Chinese estate to ensure a treaty proposing anti terrorism hand in hand with india, so china and india will have a partnership forming about. Terrorism in other nations is being used to weaken countries and slow economic production Officials at the china institute of international studies spoke in regards of india and the deal that may potentially be put into play and it was stated at the conference that terrorism is a big deal with india since they have been a victim of the immoral act.

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This visualization compares Japan's education rate to the other countries. Japan's higher education has the same expenditures as Germany and is tied for rank 3 for the highest. Japan's primary and secondary education has one of the lowest rates.

According to the United Nations Declaration of [|Human Rights] in regards to education,

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 * //(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.//

Although the article in regards to education on an international scale is abused in most nations in one way or another, expecially in East Asia when it comes to child labor, nations do realize that education is of utter importance to the success of the countries adolescence and future. As more countries realize this, they begin to take education more seriously on a larger spectrum. A recent [|article] about the necessity for education in North and South Korea, of both boys and girls, outlines how it is crucial to the countries future. According to Bai Ji-sook, the reporter, the nations leaders realize that education is the only path to economic rise and stability. "These women send their children to schools and teach them at home about social responsibilities and rights, which leads them to fight poverty and other obstacles. Education is the most effective, and in fact, the only way to get rid of poverty", said Hilde Johnson, deputy executive director of UNICEF.

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The picture below is what a classroom in Mongolia would look like. Their students wear uniforms like most of the students in the city of Philadelphia would wear. The education system in Monglia was originally controlled by Buddhist monasteries and was limited to monks. Tibetan was the lead or main language spoken in the schools. Canonical and liturgical languages were languages that were used in lower levels of education. Higher levels of education was available in major monasteries and often required formal egrees which included training in logic and debate. "With the exception of medicine, which involved an extensive pharmacopoeia and training in herbal medicines, higher education was esoteric and unworldly. Major monasteries supported four colleges: philosophy, doctrine, and protocol; medicine; mathematics, astrology, and divination; and demonology and demon suppression." [|Education in Mongolia]
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The picture below depicts the typical Chinese classroom:

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Development:
CHINA: China is developing rapidly considering the recession that's hit the global economy pretty hard. the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) predicted that China's GDP will grow to be 1.2% higher this year as compared to last year reaching almost 10% growth. [] Below is a link to a video regarding China's climate situation: []

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**China's Human Rights:**

This picture was taken from Just Focus Organization(www.justfocus.org.nz/about/). This picture shows protesters, protesting for equal human rights for China. China has no type of human rights, the citizens of China are mistreated and are forcefully kept quiet by their government. Everything in China is controlled by the government on a micro level to the point of Chinese citizens are afraid to talk what's on their mind because they can get thrown in jail or worst executed.