Effectiveness in achieving NI Flashcards
(41 cards)
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%
