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THE SENKAKU ISLANDS DISPUTE Overview of the Senkaku Islands Dispute The Senkaku Islands are a series of islands located in the East China Sea that are currently being controlled by Japan They have a total area of about 7 square kilometers and lie north-east of Taiwan, east of the Chinese mainland and south-west of Japan's southern-most prefecture, Okinawa. These islands are considered very important to all three countries due to their close proximity to important shipping lanes, rich grounds…

After the World War II (WWII), a new and strange war started. As Dunn (2009) writes, this so called Cold War was between the eastern Soviet Union (SU) led communist block and the United States (U.S.) led democratic block. In 1947, President Truman issued his doctrine; that the U.S. would keep back the Soviet threat. U.S. would contain SU. Firstly, this war occurred in Europe, the Greek, and Turkey communist actions, the Berlin Blockade, and airlift and the establishment of North Atlantic…

During the Chinese Cold War and Chinese Revolution, multiple leaders had contradicting opinions of how to rule the country. Revolutionary leader, Mao Zedong, once said,” The ultimate perspective of the Chinese Revolution is not capitalism but socialism and communism” (N.pag.).Throughout his education, Mao Zedong believed that communism could help China grow stronger, and he also saw the importance of all people during revolutions (Zedong N.pag.). Mao wanted the Chinese Government to become…

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76) launched and orchestrated by Chairman Mao Zedong aimed to maintain his power in the Chinese government by spreading his ideological beliefs. He aimed to destroy the Four Olds (old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits). In foundation to this, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department (CCP-CPD) sought to bring about ‘thought reform’ through the use of propaganda. Propaganda was disseminated into cultural aspects of…

Taiwan Today website announced that Council of Labor Affairs endorsed that foreign labours can work up to 12 years as compared to three years in 2011. This will also generate more confidence in foreign employees and help to boost work performance, less time to train foreign workers, less conflicts and lower employee turnover. Ernst & Young has published in the report that Ministry of Finance in Taiwan has been trying to reduce the taxation policies in the country by reducing corporate income…

Ming China last chinese dynasty, 1368-1644 started when the mongols were overthrown zhu yuanzhang started the dynasty and had many military talents population rose about 150 million people economic progress urbanization and technology increase of people that lived in urban areas people were still able to be fed properly China did not have an industrial-technical breakthrough; which is why is it not the dominant power of the world the ming political system The ming dynasty was ruled by a…

The Cry of A City of Sadness “I hope that a renewed understanding of ‘Two-two-eight’ will help everyone to finally cast away its dark shadow and to go on living with energy and vitality.” - Hou Hsiao-Hsien on his film A City of Sadness “In prison, I swore to live, for the sake of friends who had died.” - Wen-ching (played by Tony Leung, A City of Sadness) Taiwan was already undergoing significant societal and political changes in the 1980s, but perhaps the most notable was the lifting of…

China in many centuries regarded itself as self-sufficient and a country that is more superior than other countries. China is a feudal society where it does not associate nor trade with other countries; therefore, this isolation with the outside world indirectly led to fail of the Qing Dynasty. China is transition from a traditional society to a modern one and transformation from the Kuomingdang to the Communism; where under Chairman Mao Zedong’s ruling, people have to get rid of the old and…

The Forbidden City The Forbidden City, known as Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties—the years 1420 to 1912. It lays at the center of Beijing. It currently houses the Palace Museum. The Forbidden City served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government for nearly five hundred years.The most noticeable and vital aspects of the Forbidden City are the history, architecture, and…

series of important historical events were based on his thoughts. Starting from 1949 until his death in 1976, the political events he participated in still remain a legacy of current day China. Mao is known as a leftist leader that went against the Kuomintang (KMT), which was a rightist party, and achieved victory in the Chinese Civil War. A turning point for the once unknown Communist Party was the long march in 1934 to 1935. According to Maurice Meisner’s Mao’s China…