1. How did the decline of China during the 1800s affect the geopolitical structure of East Asia?
2. Do levels of social development in East Asia differ from those of economic development? If so, how?
3. Why has China become the world's largest emitter of GHGs, and what is its government doing about this problem?
4. What in particular about smartphones makes them such a highly globalized product?
5. Why does East Asia get so much of its food and so many of its natural resources from other parts of the world?
6. China has recently been rapidly expanding its urban system, yet in some areas huge new apartment block shave gone unoccupied. Why have such projects been built, and what consequences might they have forChina's economy?
7. Why are Chinese investors particularly interested in business opportunities in Angola?
8. How is the urban landscape of East Asia, and particularly that of China, currently changing?
9. How have geopolitical issues in East Asia changed since the end of the Cold War?