Lesson 17: Natural Disasters and Lost Decades in Japan

April 14, 2016

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Apr 14, 2016

Review:

• China Rising
• Schedule Revision
  • Today: China and Japan
  • Tuesday: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Deal Debate
• China – Historical References
• • 1949 Mao Tse-tung’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) takes power.
    • Kuo-min Tang (KMT), led by Chiang Kai-shek, retreats to Taiwan
  • 1958-1959 Great Leap Forward
    • Industrialization campaign
    • Widespread famine kills up to 30 million
  • 1966-1970 Cultural Revolution
    • Red Guards purge “revisionism” (Soviet) and “capitalism” (American) ideals
  • 1978-1987 One Child Policy
    • Population Pyramid
  • 1989 Tiananmen Square
    • Timeline
    • Tank Man
  • 1978- 1992 Deng Xioping
  • • Architect of new policy combining Socialism with Market Economics
    • Open Door policy allowed Foreign Direct Investment
    • Special Economic Zones were designated
    • Investment from Chinese immigrants living in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and originally from South/Southeast Coastal China (many relocated during Cultural Revolution)
    • Rapid GDP growth
    • FDI 1980-2013
    • Map of FDI activity

• More China Materials
  • Watch Understanding the Rise of China (TED video)
  • Read  The Rise of China and the Future of the West (Foreign Affairs PDF)

Presentation:

Natural Disasters – National Geographic, Wikipedia

Ring of Fire:

• 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan (National Geographic video)

Supply Chain Impacts:

• NY Times Article
• Harvard Business School
• Supply Chain Digest

Japan’s Lost Decade(s):

Assignment:

• Read about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP):
  • Office of the US Trade Representative
  • The Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Accord Explained – The New York Times
  • Twelve countries reach an agreement on trans-Pacific trade _ The Economist
  • Trans-Pacific Trade Deal a Setback for China – WSJ
  • Fact-checking the campaigns for and against the TPP trade deal – The Washington Post
• Prepare to debate the TPP on Tuesday