China

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China

• By
• Clayton Bowman

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Topics being presented

• China, basic facts
• Population issues
• The Economy
• Issues with Taiwan
• The ETIM
• International Futures

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Facts

• Communist state
• Peoples Republic of China
• Capital Beijing
• President HU Jintao
• Vice-President Zeng Quinghong

• Population1,286,975,468 (July 2003 est..)
• Population below poverty line 10
• Labor force 744 million

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Population Issues

• World population 6,302,309,691
• Chinas population 1,286,975,468
• 10 of population under poverty line.
• That equals roughly 128.5 million people living
  in poverty.
• CIA World Fact-book

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Overpopulation in urban areas

• The problems of urban air pollution are derived
  largely from the combustion of poor quality coal
  of high-sulfur content for heat and electricity
  generation.
• inefficient use of energy,
• lack of emission controls, and
• the discharge of pollutants close to ground
  level, particularly in the case of the domestic
  use of coal.

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• Today these big stacks spew out a great amount
  of pollution helping to blanket the town and the
  river valley with a shield of dust, carcinogens
  and sulfur dioxide which effectively prevents the
  sun and thus light to penetrate.
• http//www.worldbank.org/nipr/china/pix/

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The Economy

• In late 1978 the Chinese leadership began moving
  the economy from a sluggish, Soviet-style
  centrally planned economy to a more
  market-oriented system.

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Economic Results Since 1978

• The result has been a quadrupling of GDP since
  1978. In 2003, with its 1.3 billion people but a
  GDP of just 5,000 per capita, China stood as the
  second-largest economy in the world after the US
  (measured on a purchasing power parity basis).

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Comparison China and USA
CHINA
USA

• GDP Purchasing power parity - 5.989 trillion
  (2002 est.)
• GDP Per Capita purchasing power parity - 4,700
  (2002 est.)
• External Debt 149.4 billion (2002 est.)

• GDPpurchasing power parity - 10.45 trillion
  (2002 est.)
• GDP per capita purchasing power parity - 36,300
  (2002 est.)
• External Debt 862 billion (1995 est.)

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Whats the problem with Taiwan?
A LITTLE HISTORY

• At the end of WWII, Taiwan was turned over to the
  Chinese from the Japanese.
• the island became the last refuge of the
  Kuomintang (Chinese nationalist) forces, which
  were pushed off the mainland by communists in
  1949.

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Whats the problem with Taiwan?

• The Democratic Progressive party is in power in
  Taiwan under the president Chen Shui-bian
• The Communist party is in power in China under
  president Hu Jintao.

• China threatens war with Taiwan-November 2003
• They threaten war in order to gain control over
  the island after politicians in Taiwan start
  moving toward formal independence.

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Results in the Taiwan conflict

• Taiwan has made great progress toward their quest
  for independence, but the people remain under the
  Chinese rule, and by 2006 they will have over 650
  missiles pointed at them by the Chinese.

• China has increased security and missile stations
  along the coastline with Taiwan, aiming more and
  more missiles at them by the year.

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International Futures
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Whats the problem with the ETIM?

• East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM).

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Who Are They?

• A small, militant Muslim separatist group based
  in China's western Xinjiang province's vast,
  thinly populated region that shares borders with
  several countries, including Afghanistan and
  Pakistan.
• Beijing has outlawed ETIM for a decade.

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Ok, so nobody likes the ETIM?

• So everyone outlawed the ETIM, so what?
• The Chinese government has been heavily
  criticized for suppressing the peoples right to
  worship whoever they choose.
• The danger is that any religious repression by
  the authorities could stoke bitter resentment
  against Chinese rule.

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Does ETIM Have Ties To Al Qaeda?

• U.S. and Chinese officials say it does, but some
  experts are less sure. The State Department
  reports that the ETIM has a close financial
  relationship with Osama bin Laden's terror
  network.

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