Deck 12: The Pacific Rim

Question 1

The Uighur separatists are made of which ethnic minority group:

A) Christian Orthodox.
B) Christian fundamentalists.
C) Chinese Muslims.
D) Orthodox Chinese.

Answer 1

Chinese Muslims.

Question 2

What tactic has the Falun Gong successfully employed to attack the Chinese authorities?

A) Self-immolation
B) Hijacking TV stations
C) Hacking into government TV broadcasts
D) Hacking into government computer systems

Answer 2

Hacking into government TV broadcasts

Question 3

Chinese authorities have mounted a three year campaign denouncing Falun Gong as being:

A) An evil cult.
B) An anti Communist organization.
C) A subversive movement.
D) A terrorist organization.

Answer 3

An evil cult.

Question 4

One of the main goals of the Independence Movement in Taiwan is for an independent nation and:

A) Joining NATO.
B) Joining the EEC.
C) Joining the U.N.
D) Joining the Communist Party of China.

Question 5

Which terrorist group was responsible for the Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995?

A) Japanese Red Army
B) Aum Shinrikyo
C) Ichiro Ozawa
D) Shining Path

Question 6

A Japanese Red Army member, Tsutomu Shirosaki was captured in 1996 and brought to the U.S. to stand trial in connection with a rocket attack on a U.S. embassy in which city?

A) Beirut
B) Colombo
C) Jakarta
D) Bangkok

Question 7

Japan's Government/Industry cooperation, a strong work ethic, mastery of high technology, and a comparatively small defense allocation, ________ of GDP, have helped Japan become one of the Most powerful economies in the world.

A) 5.0%
B) 10.0%
C) 3.0%
D) 1.0%

Question 8

The Philippine government quickly responded when a U.S. company experienced what appeared to be an attack on one of its subcontractors by ________ in Quezon

A) Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)
B) MILN
C) MILF
D) New People's Army (NPA)

Question 9

The guerrilla arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) is an avowedly ________ group formed in December 1969.

A) Secular
B) Maoist
C) Extremists
D) Islamist

Question 10

The Philippines has had a long and complex dispute with China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and possibly Brunei over:

A) Its membership in NATO.
B) East Timor.
C) Abu Sayyaf .
D) The Spratley Islands.

Question 11

In 1998, North Korea launched a missile over:

A) China.
B) South Korea.
C) Japan.
D) Taiwan.

Question 12

In 1996 the government of the Philippines began implementing the terms of a peace agreement with which terrorist organization?

A) Moro National Liberation Front
B) Abu Sayyaf
C) Jemaah Islamiyyah
D) Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Question 13

Jemaah Islamiyyah had a strong ally in which organization?

A) The New Peoples Army
B) Abu Sayyaf
C) Moro National Liberation Front
D) Moro Islamic Liberation Front

Question 14

What is the name of the legislative body largely appointed by President Suharto, that reelected him to a seventh term as President of Indonesia?

A) The Democratic Peoples Assembly
B) The Democracy Assembly
C) The Peoples Assembly
D) The Peoples Consultative Assembly

Question 15

The Islamic terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyyah has developed economic and military assets through the use of?

A) Kidnapping
B) Extortion
C) Hijackings
D) Cells (fiahs)

Question 16

Abu Bakar Bashir has been labeled the "spiritual leader" of JI.

Question 17

The Falun Gong is a vast spiritual movement in China that seeks a separate homeland in western China.

Question 18

The People's Consultative Assembly, a legislative body that was largely appointed by the president himself, reelected Suharto to a seventh term.

Question 19

Following the Sarin gas attacks on the Tokyo sub way a Japanese government panel invoked the Anti Subversive Law and banned membership of Aum Shinrikyo.

Question 20

The Canary Group operates as a recruiting arm of the Aum Shinrikyo cult.

Question 21

Abu Sayyaf became very active in the 1990s and has aims at creating an Islamic state along the Sulu Archipelago.

Question 22

Jemaah Islamiyyah has the goal of creating an Islamist theocracy that unify Muslims in Thailand and India

Question 23

The JI has emerged as the most extensive transnational radical Islamist group in Southeast Asia.

Question 24

Although the ETIM seeks to establish an independent Islamic regime, the majority of Uighurs are Shia and do not support an Islamic state.

Question 25

A government panel decided to invoke the Anti-Subversive Law, and ban Aum Shinrikyo, concluding that the group still posed a significant future threat, although the group continued to operate and to recruit new members.

Question 26

The efforts of the Falun Gong movement have created cracks in the tight control of mainland China's aging leadership.

Question 27

Taiwan has a dynamic capitalist economy, with considerable guidance of investment by government officials.

Question 28

Former JRA member Jun Nishikawa, was captured in Bolivia and deported to Israel, where he was indicted for his role in the Lod Airport massacre.

Question 29

The Abu Sayyaf Group and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front are committed to the violent overthrow of the Philippine government.

Question 30

Despite corruption and wide spread human rights abuses President Suharto managed to remain in power until 1998.