B SAI KUMAR SWAMY

PGPM, I I M- BANGALORE
Current Affairs Update -
International
Agenda
Japan
North Korea
China territorial disputes
Myanmar Elections
Iran Nuclear Standoff
Russia & Putin
Sudan
US Elections
Venezuela - Chavez
Kyoto Protocol
Apple vs. Samsung
Arab Spring


Japan
Lost decade 90s
Asset price Bubble
Increase in Interest Rates
Zombie Banks

Low growth rates
Population declines
Demographic Inversion
Growing Greys
Declining Support Ratio

Political Instability
Shinzo Abe
Government Debt

Senkaku
Archipelago 5 islands & 3 Rocky crags
Senkaku Diaoyu Tiaoyutai
Rich fishing grounds Shipping Oil reserves
Fishing Agreements Senkaku outside of Chinese EEZ
Controlled by Japan since 1895
Treaty of Shimonoseki
Terra Nullius
1945-1972 USA after WWII
Treaty of San Francisco
China disputes Terra Nullius status
Returned as was done of all conquests in 1945
US Japan Security Treaty
Japan purchases remaining 3 islands in 2012
Shinzo Abe vows to defend Senkaku at all costs

North Korea - 1
Political
Korean empire ruled peninsula in 18
th
-19
th
century
Japanese occupation 1910-1945
Division of peninsula into North Korea & South Korea
Korean War -1950-1953
China UN USA Unification of country 38
th
parallel
Single party state
Juche - man is the master of everything and decides everything
Hereditary Dictatorship Total Control Zones Camp 22
Personality Cult
Kim Il Sung
Chosen by Stalin - KPA
Tenure 6 SK; 7 Russian; 10 US; 14 UK; 21 Japan
Communism East Germany; Romania; Albania
Collapse of Communism Isolation of Nkorea
Great Leader Son of the Nation - Eternal President

North Korea - 2
North South Relations
Demilitarized Zone
Incursion Tunnels
1991 UN Recognition
2000 Peaceful Reunification
NorthSouth Joint Declaration
Kim Dae Jung - Kim Jong-Il
Sunshine Policy Nobel Peace Prize 2000 for Kim Dae Jung
Ended in 2006 over Nuclear Tests Declared failure in 2010
Cheonan incident 2010
Nuclear Power
Economy
Shortages
State Controlled Cuba & North Korea
Famine in 1997 Deaths of millions
China territorial disputes
China Neighbors 14 (land) 8 (Sea)
Many disputes over land & sea
Taiwan (Republic of China)
Chinese Civil War KMT CPC
Paracel islands Vietnam Battle of Paracel Islands 1974
Spratlys Vietnam, Phillipines, Brunei, Malaysia
1968 Oil discovery Bigger than Kuwait
North Korea
Yalu River
India
Aksai Chin
South Tibet - Arunachal Pradesh
TAR Tibet
Annexed in 1950 Autonomous status Dalai Lama
China Western Development
70% Area 30% Population 20% GDP
Mongolia


Annexures
Annexures
Japan - Population
Demographic Inversion
Growing Greys
Support Ratio
Senkaku Diaoyu Islands
Senkaku - Japan Taiwan
Juche Tower Kim Il Sung
Personality Cult
Camp 22 NASA image Korea
Tunnels & DMZ
Cheonan

Chinas Territorial Disputes
China - Taiwan
Taiwan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Paracel Islands
Spratlys
Yalu North Korea
India Aksai Chin
McMahon - TAR
TAR
Mt. Everest
Qinghai Tibet Railway
China Western Development