Current Affairs Update International

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P G P M , I I M - B A N G A L O R E

Current Affairs Update -

International


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Agenda

Japan

North Korea

China territorial disputes

Myanmar Elections

Iran Nuclear Standoff Russia & Putin

Sudan

US Elections

Venezuela - Chavez

Kyoto Protocol

Apple vs. Samsung

Arab Spring


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Japan

Lost decade 90s

Asset price Bubble

Increase in Interest Rates

Zombie Banks

Low growth rates

Population declines

Demographic Inversion

Growing Greys

Declining Support Ratio

Political Instability

Shinzo Abe

Government Debt


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Senkaku

Archipelago 5 islands & 3 Rocky crags

Senkaku Diaoyu Tiaoyutai

Rich fishing grounds Shipping Oil reserves

Fishing Agreements Senkaku outside of Chinese EEZ

Controlled by Japan since 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki

Terra Nullius

1945-1972 USA after WWII

Treaty of San Francisco

China disputes Terra Nullius status Returned as was done of all conquests in 1945

US Japan Security Treaty

Japan purchases remaining 3 islands in 2012 Shinzo Abe vows to defend Senkaku at all costs


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North Korea - 1

Political Korean empire ruled peninsula in 18th-19thcentury

Japanese occupation 1910-1945

Division of peninsula into North Korea & South Korea

Korean War -1950-1953

China UN USA Unification of country 38thparallel

Single party state Juche - man is the master of everything and decideseverything

Hereditary Dictatorship Total Control Zones Camp 22

Personality Cult

Kim Il Sung

Chosen by Stalin - KPA

Tenure 6 SK; 7 Russian; 10 US; 14 UK; 21 Japan

Communism East Germany; Romania; Albania

Collapse of Communism Isolation of Nkorea Great Leader Son of the Nation - Eternal President


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North Korea - 2

North South Relations

Demilitarized Zone

Incursion Tunnels

1991 UN Recognition

2000 Peaceful Reunification NorthSouth Joint Declaration

Kim Dae Jung - Kim Jong-Il

Sunshine Policy Nobel Peace Prize 2000 for Kim Dae Jung

Ended in 2006 over Nuclear Tests Declared failure in 2010

Cheonan incident 2010 Nuclear Power

Economy

Shortages

State Controlled Cuba & North Korea

Famine in 1997 Deaths of millions


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China territorial disputes

China Neighbors 14(land) 8(Sea) Many disputesover land & sea

Taiwan (Republic of China)

Chinese Civil War KMT CPC

Paracel islandsVietnam Battle of Paracel Islands 1974

Spratlys Vietnam, Phillipines, Brunei, Malaysia 1968 Oil discovery Bigger than Kuwait

North Korea

Yalu River

India

Aksai Chin

South Tibet- Arunachal Pradesh

TAR Tibet

Annexed in 1950 Autonomous status Dalai Lama

ChinaWestern Development

70% Area 30% Population 20% GDP

Mongolia


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Annexures


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Annexures


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Japan -Population


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Demographic Inversion


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Growing Greys


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Support Ratio


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Senkaku Diaoyu Islands


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Senkaku - Japan Taiwan


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Juche Tower Kim Il Sung


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Personality Cult


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Camp 22NASA image Korea


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Tunnels &DMZ


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Cheonan

Chi T it i l Di t


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Chinas Territorial Disputes


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China -Taiwan


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Taiwan


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Chiang Kai-Shek


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Paracel Islands


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Spratlys


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Yalu North Korea


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McMahon -TAR


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TAR


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Mt. Everest


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Qinghai Tibet Railway

China Western Development


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China Western Development

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