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Housekeeping…

Housekeeping…. REVISION GUIDE is available for purchase. Today I will put a class list in – it will be $25 per copy. Pay and then I will order then at the end of NEXT WEEK. I am also ordering the REVISION PODCASTS which I can give to you FREE OF CHARGE!.

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Housekeeping…

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  1. Housekeeping… • REVISION GUIDE is available for purchase. • Today I will put a class list in – it will be $25 per copy. Pay and then I will order then at the end of NEXT WEEK. • I am also ordering the REVISION PODCASTS which I can give to you FREE OF CHARGE!

  2. Policy Instruments to achieve National Interest

  3. Trade • Globalisation means economies become more connected. • PRC is a major trading power in the world. • PRC encourages economic likes with their terrorities that have separatist elements (i.e. Taiwan, Xingjiang province) • PRC also encourages trade and business deals with states who condemn separatist activity.

  4. Trade

  5. Trade • Why has PRC pursued this level of trade with Taiwan?

  6. Aid • Aid for Oil program – In exchange for billions of dollars in aid invested into resource-rich developing states, China receives access to the raw materials such as oil. • Example: Angola $2 billion in aid. Used in Angola for infrastructure development. In return, 25% of exported oil is sent to China. • Congo, Chinese firms build and refurbish railways, roads and mines at a cost of $12 billion, in exchange for copper ore of equivalent value. This is 10 times the aid western donors have promised Congo until 2010.

  7. Aid • China: ‘Protector of Africa’ • This aid from China also fuels economic growth in China. • Debt: cancelled $10billion of debt from African states. • Problems: IMF loans not needed. IMF loans come with conditions, Chinese aid does not. • Darfur – genocide: China blocks sanctions against the Khartoum government.

  8. Article – “Darfur – the China Problem” • Summarise the article – Lightning summary • Delete some information (trivial or unnecessary to understanding) • Substitute some information (can you say it better? Easier to understand?) • Keep some information (vial information, quotes and stats)

  9. Aid • Chequebook diplomacy – buying friends in the Pacific. • 2004 Vanuatu briefly recognised the ROC because Taipai offered $30million in aid. • PRC not happy, intense diplomatic pressure, and even a fistfight (Vohor punched the PRC ambassador when asked to explain why the flag of the ROC was flying at the hotel where the Taiwanese representative was posted) • No-confidence motion in the government, ‘One China’ is victorious.

  10. Aid to Xingjiang – NY Times Article

  11. Military Power • Demonstrations of military strength and power: • 1996 Taiwan Missile Crisis • Ongoing: Rocket testing and deployments • 2001 EP3 crisis • 2007 Shoot satellite down • 2010 Chinese naval force projection (beyond the “first ring of islands”, see article from Tuesday period 7)

  12. Propaganda • 2008 Beijing Olympics • Censorship – Internet, state media, etc. • Denial of Human Rights is swept under the carpet.

  13. Domestic Pressure • This is pressure from within the country for the state to act in a certain way. • Xingjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong (to an extent) • Increased liberalism to match economic gains e.g. political freedoms, freedom of speech • Falun Gong – religious freedoms • There is domestic pressure acting in Taiwan – page 180-181 of textbook, look at graph…

  14. And Now! A PRACTICE ESSAY!!!  Yay!  Assess how successful China has been in achieving their national interest objectives since the end of the Cold War.

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