China (EP)

Question 1

Taiwanese exports to China 2020 (EP)

Answer 1

$155.55 billion

Question 2

Taiwanese investment into China 2019/20 (EP)

Answer 2

$36.8 billion
Taiwanese tech company Foxconn = 1 million employees in China

Question 3

% of Taiwanese trade with China (EP)

Answer 3

47% of trade / 15% of GDP

Question 4

% of cross-strait trade with Taiwan (EP)

Answer 4

70%

Question 5

China is #1 trading partner to who? (EP)

Answer 5

Japan, Taiwan, SK, NK

Question 6

% of NK trade that China makes up (EP)

Answer 6

90%

Question 7

How much is the 2015 SK FTA worth? (EP)

Answer 7

$300 billion

Question 7

How much is the 2015 SK FTA worth? (EP)

Answer 7

$300 billion

Question 7

How much is the 2015 SK FTA worth? (EP)

Answer 7

$300 billion

Question 8

How many Lotte Company stores shut because of the Chinese boycotts re. THAAD? (EP)

Answer 8

75/99

Question 9

What do China require from Taiwan through trade? (EP)

Answer 9

Semiconductors –> allow China to achieve “made in China by 2025”/ move to a high-tech/tech innovator economy rather than the ‘world’s factory’

Question 10

Value of business deals b/w China and Japan 2019 (EP)

Answer 10

$2.6 billion

Question 11

Divestment in China from Japan 2015 (EP)

Answer 11

25% decrease

Question 12

How much was Japan investing in the Chinese economy? (EP)

Answer 12

$1 trillion

Question 13

How many barrels worth of oil in the SCS? (EP)

Answer 13

~11 billion barrels

Question 14

How much trade goes through the SCS per year? (EP)

Answer 14

$5.3 trillion

Question 15

What can China exploit from SCS? (EP)

Answer 15

Resources + trade
Oil, ^ fishing, ~190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas

Question 16

What % Malaysian trade does Chin a make up? (EP)

Answer 16

23.8%

Question 17

What % of Vietnamese trade does China make up? (EP)

Answer 17

25.9%

Question 18

What % of global GDP does the BRI give China access to? (EP)

Answer 18

40%

Question 19

Value of the ‘high-speed railway market’ + who has China invested with re. high-speed railway (EP)

Answer 19

$263 billion
China invested e.g. to India, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia
Indonesia –> Bundung to Jakarta railway

Question 20

South-western Chinese regions GDP dev from BRI (EP)

Answer 20

0.2-0.3% ^

Limited despite ^ inv.

Question 21

What is limiting China’s EP? (EP)

Answer 21

Slowing economy, COVID-19, BRI failure in some states, fear of China e.g. Aus Govt re. BRI in Vic, global economy, questionable Chinese aid (debt-trap diplomacy)

Question 22

How has China achieved EP? (EP)

Answer 22

Trade e.g. Taiwan
BRI e.g. Pakistan
Obtaining inv. to high-tech ind.

Question 23

How much of the wealth does 1% of the population in China control? (EP)

Answer 23

30.6% --> wealth disparity