Geography of East Asia: Modern Issues

This world geography lesson goes over some of the characteristics and issues of East Asia.

This includes looking at the historical factors that led to China's One World Policy and its government. Featured is the failure of the Great Leap Forward answered by the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, followed by China's Later, Longer, and Fewer campaign and then the 1979 decision to restrict Chinese families to just one child.

China's totalitarian government is reviewed as well as its crushing of democracy reforms in 1989 during the Tienanmen Square protests which resulted in 1,000s of Chinese being killed.

The economic success of China, Japan, and South Korea are examined and a discussion on whether China is capitalist or not.

Other issues examined is China's annexation of Tibet, expansion into the South China Sea as well as North Korea's government and pursuit for nuclear armament.