The Pivot To Asia

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destinations they value most". This is the next step in strengthening our position in Asia,

Chinese markets would greatly benefit American life through financial advancement and elevating ranking to a world power, but by squandering the Philippines, dysfunction and deep-rooted damage would be instituted, contrary to Beveridge and his supporter’s goals.

This essay analyses the Australian-China bilateral relationship since 1945 and in particular its political significance to Australia. Many global factors have influenced this relationship, including the advent of the Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the collapse of the Soviet bloc European nations. In addition, internal political changes in Australia and China have both affected and been affected by the global changes. It will be analysed that Australia’s bilateral relationship with China has always had a sharp political edge but that approaching the new millenium economics and trade considerations are shaping Australias and for that matter Chinese politics.

I studied in Tokyo and Beijing and traveled to Kosovo, South Africa and India. I wrote two senior dissertations: “Climbing to the Top: the Competition between BMW, Toyota and Ford” and “The Pacific Nation: United States Foreign Policy towards China and India.” While in school, I also created a Model UN conference to more than 225 high school students. In my various roles, I have created several publications, presentations, videos, infographics and websites.

In the group discussion for this week, we had Austy, Thana, Asia and me. We have discussed about the passage after we read it. Firstly, we all thought that bringing together the criminal and the victim is a good idea. But it is not really work for all crimes and bullying. It depends on each cases because we thought there are some people who really bad from inside in our society and we can’t use this way to change people from bad to become good rapidly. Next question, we saw the number of 60% of people released after serving one year in prison are convicted of another crime. Austy and Thana strongly agree that the punishment is too soft, which can’t make the criminal feel guilty or sorry. Moreover, some people may felt guilty but they

The US has put their presence in Southeast Asia and it has resulted in dire consequences. Southeast Asia has terrorist groups known as Al Qaeda and evil leaders such as Saddam Hussein. America thinks that their presence is needed in Southeast Asia to help deal with relations like this and others to come. But, the US should not have a presence in Southeast Asia. The US should not have a presence in Southeast Asia because, our military has and will cause further damage to the ecosystem, we tend to reason with force and result easily to conflict when dealing with situations like this, and we ask if others what we wouldn't do.

The importance the United States attaches to its trade with the Asia-Pacific region has promoted China's economic development. In 2006, the U.S.-Asia-Pacific trade volume reached 2 trillion U.S. dollars. The U.S. investment in the region amounts to 774 billion U.S. dollars, which has brought tremendous benefits to the countries in the Asia-Pacific region including China.

Chapter six introduces the music of Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is composed of eleven countries: Myanmar, Singapore, Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Brunei, Philippines, and Timor-Leste. The cultures are shaped by weather patterns, which generally stay the same year-round. As many as 200 ethnics group can be found throughout Southeast Asia and so, many different types of music can be found. The area is known for using bamboo and bronze to make instruments. Among the island nations, Indonesia is consist of over 13,000 islands making it the largest archipelago in the world.

Australia and Europe are making an effort to improve the Asia literacy. For example, David Miliband (2008) who is the British Foreign Secretary, pointed out the economic shifting from west to east accompany the integration of China and India into the world economy (as cited in Harvey, 2011). The shifting that prompts economic interaction between

In How Asia Works: Success and Failure In the World’s Most Dynamic Region, Joe Studwell explores what led countries such as Japan, South Korea, and China to economic prosperity while countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines failed to ascertain opulence. He describes this separation of success as on that creates two East Asias. He presents his arguments in a four-part narrative detailing the step-by-step process through which countries complete the ascension process. He supports his claims with a 67-page long list of references from the Meiji Restoration all the way up to present day (2014 being that the book was published then). This essay will analyze and critique one main component from each step of his three-step recipe for

How did East Asia become so successful? The countries all had a rough start at the beginning, but who didn’t? In the late 1990’s Eastern Asia were struggling to make ends meet. Most countries in Eastern Asia begin making money by agriculture. East Asia propelled into the world with more and labor and growth and put themselves on the map.

Earth is bigger than what most people think; it consists of 7 continents, 7 seas, and 196 different countries. Taking that into consideration, our earth currently is supporting over 7 billion people worldwide. That is 7 billion people who are different and individuals who share different thoughts, ideas, backgrounds, and cultures. Cultures are very unique as they are different from country to country. Some adopt cultures that society accepts as the norm, while others adopt different types of cultures; cultures that not many people, especially those outside of the country, can see eye to eye and would sometimes find them rather ‘extreme’. When comparing Asian cultures and American cultures side by side, we can easily identify the many differences between the two. For one, Asian cultures are less open, more traditional and conservative in comparison to Americans. While Americans promote liberty, independence, and values individualism; Asian countries, on the other hand, are more fixated in keeping with the custom. Knowing this, it is not surprising to see Asian countries have a more rigid and structured form of society compared to the Western counterparts. The values, business structures and even priorities are different between the two and can easily be distinguished. Singapore is a good example of the contrasting differences and representation of the Asian cultures.

The problems within Asia seem to be endless to the west, on the contrary, which nation are with out problems of its own? Nevertheless, the stereotype notion of Asia continues, but in the meantime, Asia needs to over come this era of globalisation, modernisation, westernisation, nationalisation expansions and many more sub-problems that follows. Which in time, enables to change or delete this categorized notion of Asia, among some large portion of western

United States Policy toward Southeast Asia In 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a trusteeship principle, in which the subjugated nations of Asia would prepare themselves for self-government, under the supervision of the imperial nations. FDR had ‘genuine humanitarian principles’[1] and was aware of the conditions under which colonial people sometimes lived. He also realised that the colonial system was detrimental to US interests.