Effectiveness in achieving NI Flashcards
NS - What portion of Taiwan’s GDP is from China?
15% of GDP
+ exports to China are 40% of Taiwan’s total
NS - How many incursions of Taiwan’s ADIZ in 2021?
950
NS - How many cyber attacks by China on Taiwan in 2020?
Thousands
On 20 govt agencies and 6000 official email accounts
NS - Deployment stats at Taiwan
1600 missiles and 400 000 personnel as of 2017 estimates
NS - Change in number of states recognising Taiwan
21 at start of Xi’s presidency
9 changed since 2016
Only 12 remain
NS - Honduras recognising Taiwan success
March 2023 for a hydroelectric dam
NS - Tuvalu recognising Taiwan failure
Offered a $400 mill project to construct artificial islands to combat climate change impacts but denied
NS - Increasing US presence stats
Ending of strategic ambiguity in 2022
Biden increasing weapons sales inc $100 mill missile defence system
2020: total of $5.1 bn in arms
NS - Reunification opinion stats Taiwan
2019 - only 6% support immediate independence
Only 10% favour reunification
(success in prag goal but not idealistic)
NS - Investment of Taiwan into China
$188 bn
NS - Economic dependence of NK on China
Largest trading partner
90% of imports from China
NS/IS+RR - China sanctions on NK
March 2016 co-draft expanded sanctions
Feb 2017 further restrict coal imports and trade beyond 80% reduction target
NS - Militarisation of SCS
Build 3200 acres of artificial islands
Aggressive coast guard activities inc sinking Vietnamese fishing boat in April 2020
May 2022 intercept Aust surveillance aircraft
NS - SCS success with Philippines
Disregard UNCLOS ruling
2016 announce separation from the US
NS - SCS failure with Philippines
Increasing Chinese aggression results in military threats in 2019
Cancel ending of US military access
2020 affirm UNCLOS ruling at UNGA
Announce expanded relations with US, Jap, Aust
EP - China’s rate of economic growth
10% between 80s to 2014
Current 6-6.5%
EP - Ineffectiveness of SOEs
5.3% efficiency to 7.7% in US
EP - Aging pop and workforce
Labour force fell 25% between 2012-2017
EP - Success in lowering poverty
Only 0.6% are in extreme poverty from 90% in 1978
EP - Inequality in China: GNI
GNI coefficient of 38.2 (comparable to US)
EP - Success of BRI
70% of Huawei sales are foreign
Won bid to build $263 bn high speed railway
119 Chinese companies in Forbes 500 in 2019
EP - China’s gains in BRI (loans)
84% in concessional loans
Get 6 times returns on investments
RR - Economic regional hegemon
Largest trade partner for all major Asia-Pacific economies
IS - What percent of West don’t trust China to do the right thing in world affairs?
78%
RR - Success of China over NK
In response to US plans to meet Kim,
Xi meets first
Eases sanctions inc re allowing 20 000 NK labourers (2019)
RR - SK FTA
2015 FTA bilateral trade volume of $800 bn/year
Largest trading partner since 2004
RR/NS - Boycott on SK
Car sales, Lotte stores, tourism
75/99 Lotte stores go bankrupt
Tourism drops 30% total
SK car sales fall 52%
NS/RR - What year was THAAD?
2017
NS/RR - Diplomacy over THAAD
New Pres Moon freezes THAAD
Meets Xi -> agree to no war in Korea, denuclearisation and cooperation to resolves issues with Koreas
RR - Diplomatic success with Japan
DONT USE
Nov 2014 agreement on crisis management, improved diplomatic and security ties
RR - Japan FTA
Signed in 2019 for $2.2bn in business and currency deals
RR - Failure Japan National Security strategy
Dec 2022 announce take steps to decrease dependence on specific states
Joint investment with the US on 5G, AI, Quantum computing, genomics, semiconductors
EP - SCS Failure to access resources inc…
11 billion barrells of oil
190 trillion cubic feet of nat. gas
EP - SCS success in protecting trade
Keep access to routes that cover 1/3 of global trade
IS - Criticism of aid by IMF
IMF label as enviro + debt unsustainable
IS - Perceptions of China (soft power deficit) e.g. Aust
Increased from 35% in 2013 to 78% in 2021 holding negative views on China
IS - Success in educational exchanges
Top destination for international students
440 000 in 2016
80 000 scholarships to African students
IS - Success in Africa
63% in Africa say China’s influence is positive
Mali, Botswana, Benin, Burkina Faso have China as preferred dev model
RR/IS - Confucius institutes numbers
541 in world across 6 continents
RR/IS - Confucius institutes failure
Accused of being dodgy/extensions of Chinese govt e.g. Aust fed govt investigation so all closed in NSW
NS- How many warplanes around Taiwan in September 2023?
103
