3.8b attempts to control globalisation

Question 1

protectionist policies

Answer 1

the economic policy of limiting trade between countries through tariffs on imported goods, restrictive quotas and regulations
a disadvantage for foreign companies
protects domestic suppliers

Question 2

censorship

Answer 2

CHINA

• single party communist state
• free flow of information and ideas is perceived as a threat
• Chinese government enforces censorship of Internet content and all published material (has made 60 internet regulations)
• Google withdrew its services from China in 2010
• Facebook, Twitter, Youtube banned (Great Firewall of China allows more than 400 million Chinese citizens to use local social media sites e.g. WeChat)

NORTH KOREA
no access to the internet due to state controls

Question 3

limiting immigration

Answer 3

JAPAN
- in 2008, the Liberal Democratic party wanted to accept at least 10 million immigrants
but online polls show that most Japanese people were against this and the party lost

UK

• leaving the EU in March 2019 (can control the flow of EU migrants)
• no. of working migrants from Europe will nearly half
• Ipsos MORI conducts a monthly poll asking respondents to name the most important issue facing the UK –> immigration is one of the most popular
• has a five-tier point system to control immigration (tier 1 migrants must be prepared to invest more than 2 million in the UK or possess ‘exceptional talent’

USA
- president Donald Trump plans on building a high wall along the US-Mexico border to control the flow of immigrants from Mexico