China

Question 1

What is the Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED)?

Answer 1

US-China “platform to promote bilateral understanding, expand consensus, discuss differences, build mutual trust, and increase cooperation;” joint projects and initiatives

Question 2

What is one act President Obama did to promote positive US-China relations?

Answer 2

a reciprocal visa validity arrangement with China, increasing the validity of short-term tourist and business visas issued to each other’s citizens from 1 to 10 years, and increasing the validity of student and exchange visas from 1 to 5 years.

Question 3

What 4 principal areas do US assistance programs to China focus on?

Answer 3

1. supporting efforts on environmental protection and climate-change mitigation
2. advancing the rule of law and human rights
3. assisting Tibetan communities
4. addressing the threat of pandemic diseases

Question 4

What are the two main elements of the U.S. approach to its economic relations with China?

Answer 4

1. integrating China into the global, rules-based economic and trading system
2. expanding U.S. exporters’ and investors’ access to the Chinese market

Question 5

What was trade between the US and China in 1992? 2013?

Answer 5

$33 billion to $659 billion

Question 6

T/F China is not the US’s largest export market

Answer 6

True

Question 7

What rank is China in US export markets?

Answer 7

3rd (behind Mexico and Canada)

Question 8

T/F The US is not the China’s largest export market

Answer 8

FALSE– they are!

Question 9

What was the stock of U.S. foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in 2014?

Answer 9

$65.8 billion

Question 10

When did The People’s Republic of China assume the China seat at the United Nations, replacing Taiwan?

Answer 10

1971

Question 11

When was the first voyage of direct trade between the US and China? Who embarked on it?

Answer 11

1784; the ship “Empress of China”

Question 12

When did formal recognition by the United States of the Empire of Chin and by the Empire of China of the United States happen?

Answer 12

June 16, 1844

Question 13

Which ports were the start of official consular relations with the appointments of a U.S. consul? When?

Answer 13

Fuzhou (Foochow) and Xiamen (Amoy) in 1844

Question 14

What is the Shang Dynasty? When did it unites much of north central China?

Answer 14

the first Chinese state for which clear written records remain; unites much of north central China.

Question 15

Which dominant force replaced the Shang Dynasty? When?

Answer 15

Zhou dynasty; 1045-ca 770 BC

Question 16

When did the Zho state collapse? What did it collapse into?

Answer 16

770 BC; loose association of warring states, known as the Eastern Zhou

Question 17

Who united the Chinese heartland for the first time? When was his reign?

Answer 17

King Ying Zheng of Qin; 221-206 BC

Question 18

Who did the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s award the 2010 Peace Prize to?

Answer 18

jailed Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo, who was jailed in 2009

Question 19

What did the Chinese government’s first white paper on the internet emphasize? When did they publish it?

Answer 19

emphasized the concept of “Internet sovereignty,” requiring all Internet users in China, including foreign organizations and individuals, to abide by Chinese laws and regulations; May 2010

Question 20

What are Chinese Internet companies now required to sign?

Answer 20

Public Pledge on Self-Regulation and Professional Ethics for China Internet Industry

Question 21

France-based watchdog group Reporters Without Borders ranked China ____ out of ___ countries in its 2014 worldwide index of press freedom

Answer 21

175/180

Question 22

What is most powerful monitoring body in China?

Answer 22

Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department (CPD)

Question 23

Some estimates say that the government employs roughly ______ people, hired both by the state and private companies, to constantly monitor China’s Internet.

Answer 23

100,000

Question 24

What is the center of the government’s online censorship and surveillance effort?

Answer 24

Golden Shield Project, known colloquially as the Great Firewall

Question 25

What are some of the methods the Great Firewall uses? bandwidth throttling, keyword filtering, and blocking access to certain websites

Answer 25

bandwidth throttling, keyword filtering (Deep Packet Inspection technology,) and blocking access to certain websites

Question 26

As of December, 2014, _____ journalists were imprisoned in China

Answer 26

44

Question 27

What is Charter 8? When was it signed?

Answer 27

statement signed by more than two thousand prominent Chinese citizens that called for political and human rights reforms and an end to one-party rule; 2008

Question 28

When was the directive on journalist press passes bars reporters from releasing information from interviews or press conferences on social media without permission of their employer media organizations?

Answer 28

July 2014

Question 29

In 2015, the Chinese government cracked down on _____

Answer 29

virtual private networks (VPNs)

Question 30

___ % of respondents in a 2014 survey conducted by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China said their work conditions had worsened or stayed the same compared to 2013

Answer 30

80

Question 31

Describe 2 instances when the treatment of foreign reporters became a diplomatic issue.

Answer 31

1. In response to the Arab Spring protests in early 2011, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged to continue U.S. efforts to weaken censorship in countries with repressive governments like China and Iran. In response, Beijing warned Washington to not meddle in the internal affairs of other countries.
2. On a December 2013 trip to Beijing, Vice President Joe Biden pressed China publicly and privately about press freedom, directly raising the issue in talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping and meeting with U.S. journalists working in China.

Question 32

What was the new cybersecurity regulations China issued in January 2015?

Answer 32

would force technology firms to submit source code, undergo rigorous inspections, and adopt Chinese encryption algorithms. The move triggered an outcry from European and U.S. companies, who lobbied governmental authorities for urgent aid in reversing the implementation of new regulations?

Question 33

According to Congress, what percentage of Chinese Internet users use proxy servers and VPNs to get around firewalls?

Answer 33

between 1 and 8 %

Question 34

How many internet users did China have in 2014?

Answer 34

roughly 642 million