GEOG 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Special Administrative Regions Of China, Meiji Restoration, Birmingham City Centre
25 Oct 2016
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Economic landscape: farm production, expanding industries, high-technology products, brainpower resources. Technopole centered on microelectronics and personal computers. Chinese sezs are mutually beneficial to both economies. Its unresolved status poses risks, but signs point to the desire for a solution: given the intractable nature of its status, negotiation is the only option. Looking to hong kong as a successful example: one nation, two systems: special administrative region (sar) has a thriving economy and freedoms not available to other administrative units. Seven decades of harsh communist rule: poorest, hungriest, and most regimented country on earth. Still finds sufficient resources for: missile technology, nuclear capability, advanced weaponry. Even its ideological ally , china, has sealed their common border in an effort at stability . Two koreas actually need each other as regional complementarity: north haw raw materials, south produces food. Demilitarized zone (dmz) divides the koreas: state capitalism encouragement of industrial growth.
