GEOG 2600 Lecture 1: Introduction
24 Sep 2016
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Taliban resurgence: expanding in pockets throughout afghanistan, afghanistan conflict has potential for starting again. Vietnam, china, taiwan: resources associated with islands are what they want- underseas, evolving nature of geopolitical decisions. Denmark and sweden impose new border checks: blow to open frontier europe, concern about migrants from germany crossing into their countries. Earthquake hits northeast india: border between india and bangladesh, not huge magnitude (6. 7), but formidable in this region because of sub- standard housing- loss of life and amount of damage is considerable. China ends one-child policy, brings in two-child policy: had side effects- preference for males over females, caused infanticide and huge number up for adoption, now allowed to have two children- do not need approval for it. Volkswagen sued by us justice department: scandal with fake information about emissions, implications of this will affect other parts of the world that buy vw more, 5% decrease in sales in us already.
