Deck 12: The United States and China: Engagement or Containment

Question 1

Which of the following is China's current paramount leader?

A) Hu Jintao.
B) Deng Xiaoping.
C) Xi Jinping.
D) Jiang Zemin.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

What international group includes China, Kazahkstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan?

A) The Eurasian Union.
B) The Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
C) The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation.
D) The Partnership for Peace.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What islands does China claim in the South China Sea?

A) The Spratly Islands.
B) The Ryuku Islands.
C) The Greater and Lesser Tunbs.
D) Senkaku Islands.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What islands does China claim in the East China Sea?

A) The Spratly Islands.
B) The Ryuku Islands.
C) The Greater and Lesser Tunbs.
D) The Senkaku Islands.

Question 5

Which of the following countries disputes China's claims in the South China Sea?

A) The Philippines.
B) India.
C) Japan.
D) All of the above.

Question 6

Which of the following countries disputes China's claims in the East China Sea?

A) The Philippines.
B) India.
C) Japan.
D) All of the above.

Question 7

What was the "China lobby"?

A) Influential individuals who sought to bomb China in order to bring an end to the Korean War.
B) Influential individuals who sought to influence America to aid Mao Zedong..
C) Influential individuals who sought to establish trade relations with communist China.
D) Influential individuals who sought to influence America to aid Chiang Kai-shek.

Question 8

Which of the following was accused of being a traitor by predicting the communist would triumph in China's civil war and lost his position in America's foreign service as a result?

A) Owen Lattimore.
B) William J. Goodwin.
C) Henry Luce.
D) Walter Judd.

Question 9

When did the European powers and Japan penetrate deeply into Imperial China?

A) The 16^th century.
B) The 17^th century.
C) The 18^th century.
D) The 19^th century.

Question 10

Which of the following sponsored America's Open Door policy to force China to trade equally with Western powers including the U.S.?

A) Secretary of State Elihu Root.
B) Secretary of State John Hay.
C) Secretary of State Robert Lansing.
D) Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan.

Question 11

Who led the Kuomintang Party in China?

A) Mao Zedong.
B) Chiang Kai-shek.
C) Zhou Enlai.
D) Yuan Shikai.

Question 12

In which of the following did China aid a "war of national liberation" during the Cold War?

A) Malaysia.
B) Japan.
C) Burma.
D) Pakistan.

Question 13

Which of the following countries was not a member of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization?

A) The United States.
B) Australia.
C) Taiwan.
D) Thailand.

Question 14

Which of the following contributed to the Sino-Soviet schism during the Cold War?

A) Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin's purges.
B) Soviet refusal to aid China develop nuclear weapons.
C) Soviet refusal to side with China against India in 1962.
D) All of the above.

Question 15

Who secretly paved the way for a normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations?

A) Cordell Hull.
B) Henry Kissinger.
C) George
D) Cyrus Vance.

Question 16

Which of the following was a central element of the 1972 U.S.-Chinese Shanghai Communiqué?

A) It recognized the division of Vietnam in two states-one communist and one pro-Western.
B) It involved America's acknowledgment that Taiwan was a Chinese province and that there was only one China.
C) It acknowledged the permanent division of the Korean peninsula between North and South Korea.
D) It recognized the sovereign independence on Indonesia.

Question 17

Who initiated China's shift in the direction of capitalist economics?

A) Deng Xiaoping.
B) Mao Zedong.
C) Hu Jintao.
D) Jiang Zemin.

Question 18

What president initiated a "Pacific pivot," a rebalancing towards Asia?

A) Richard M. Nixon.
B) George H.W. Bush.
C) George W. Bush.
D) Barack Obama.

Question 19

In which of the following Asian countries are U.S. troops stationed?

A) Taiwan.
B) Thailand.
C) Japan.
D) Myanmar.

Question 20

What group was established in 2005 by Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, and Singapore

A) The Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
B) The Trans-Pacific Economic Partnership.
C) The Asia Cooperation Dialogue.
D) The Asian Development Bank.

Question 21

In what region does China compete with both Russia and the United States?

A) Southeast Asia.
B) East Asia.
C) South Asia.
D) Central Asia.

Question 22

In which of the following regions is China's accused of committing human-rights abuses?

A) Hunan.
B) Macao.
C) Tibet.
D) Bhutan.

Question 23

With which of the following countries does China have a territorial dispute?

A) India.
B) Australia.
C) South Korea.
D) Sri Lanka.

Question 24

Over which of the following countries does Chinas enjoy great influence?

A) South Korea.
B) Laos.
C) Indonesia.
D) East Timor.

Question 25

Which of the following has characterized China's economy in recent years?

A) It has passed the United States in terms of per capital gross national product.
B) It has become self-sufficient in oil and gas.
C) The status of rural Chinese immigrants in its major cities has been legalized.
D) The gap between China's rich and poor has grown dramatically.

Question 26

Which of the following is one consequence of massive Chinese purchases of U.S. treasury bonds?

A) It has reduced the values of the U.S. dollar.
B) It has helped close the U.S. budget deficit.
C) It has reduced America's trade deficit.
D) It has reduced U.S. imports from China.

Question 27

What is the effect of China's alleged currency manipulation that keeps the value of its currency artificially low compared to the U.S. dollar?

A) It makes Chinese exports to the U.S. less expensive.
B) It makes U.S. exports to China less expensive.
C) It creates a nontariff barrier to U.S. exports to China.
D) It limits U.S. investment in China.

Question 28

Which of the following does the United States claim that China is guilty of?

A) Financial assistance to Southeast Asian terrorists.
B) Cyber-theft from U.S. companies.
C) Committing human-rights abuses in Hong Kong.
D) Initiating a new nuclear arms race.

Question 29

In what respect does China believe that the United States has violated the Shanghai Communiqué?

A) By maintaining bases in Okinawa.
B) By keeping troops in South Korea.
C) By selling arms to Taiwan.
D) By its alliance with Japan.

Question 30

What is required by the Taiwan Relations Act?

A) To come to Taiwan's aid if it is attacked.
B) To reestablish formal diplo mastic relations with Taiwan.
C) To back Taiwan's claims in the South China Sea.
D) To maintain Taiwan military capabilities at the same level as China's.

Question 31

What is the basis for China's claims to sovereignty over the islands in the South China Sea?

A) Their proximity to China's coast.
B) China's occupation of the islands late in World War II.
C) Historical rights based on discovery.
D) The 1951 U.S. peace treaty with Japan.

Question 32

Which of the following initiated a major improvement in U.S.-Indian relations?

A) India's ratification of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
B) India's entry into the World Trade Organization.
C) The U.S. Indian Civilian Nuclear Agreement.
D) Joint U.S.-Indian naval maneuvers in the Indian Ocean.

Question 33

Who became India's prime minister in 2014?

A) Indira Gandhi.
B) Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
C) Manmohan Singh.
D) Narandra Modi.

Question 34

What country is the world's largest importer of weapons?

A) China.
B) Saudi Arabia.
C) India.
D) Pakistan.

Question 35

What is the U.S. position regarding the Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu Islands?

A) It regards the islands as Japanese, and their security is covered by the U.S.-Japanese defense alliance.
B) It is not a party to the dispute.
C) It regards the islands as not covered by the U.S.-China defense alliance.
D) It wishes to have the dispute brought before the International Court of Justice.

Question 36

What did Article 9 of the Japanese constitution stipulate?

A) Japan could aid South Korea in the event of an invasion by North Korea.
B) Japan renounced war forever.
C) Japan agreed to its postwar occupation by U.S. forces.
D) Japan proclaimed Shinto as its official religion.

Question 37

Which of the following became a major trade dispute between the U.S. and China?

A) Beijing's imposition of higher tariffs on U.S. agricultural exports to China.
B) U.S. unwillingness to permit China to join the World Trade Organization.
C) U.S. refusal to recognize Chinese patents.
D) China's ban on the export of rare earth metals.

Question 38

Which of the following policies has Beijing followed in response to its concern that the U.S. seeks to "contain" China?

A) Improving relations with Russia.
B) Seeking admission to ASEAN.
C) Resolving disputes with Vietnam.
D) Joining the Trans-Pacific Economic Partnership.

Question 39

What is "congagement"?

Question 40

What was the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution?

Question 41

What is meant by "only Nixon could go to China"?

Question 42

What was the "gang of four"?

Question 43

What is "offshoring"?

Question 44

What is China's "Malacca dilemma"?

Question 45

What is meant by China's "string of pearls" strategy?

Question 46

Why does China not demand the withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Korea?

Question 47

What was China's "anti-Secession Law"?

Question 48

In 2012, President Xi became China's most powerful leader since _________________.

Question 49

_____________ consisted of influential individuals who sought to influence America to aid Chiang Kai-shek's effort first to remain in power and later to return to the mainland.

Question 50

In the 1920s, two political movements emerged in China, ___________________ and ____________________.

Question 51

President _______________ arrived in China in February 1972, a visit he described as a "week that changed the world."

Question 52

In _________________ America acknowledged but did not formally support Beijing's position that Taiwan was a Chinese province and that there was only one China, the PRC, and only one Chinese government.

Question 53

The Obama administration announced _______________ a rebalancing towards Asia.

Question 54

Washington viewed the core of the Shanghai Communiqué as Beijing's commitment to

Question 55

China's control the South China Sea, through which passes half the world's commercial shipping, would give it an ability to close the two maritime chokepoints into East and Southeast Asia-________________ in the north and the even narrower _______________ to the south.

Question 56

At the heart of the dispute in the South China Sea are _____________ Islands.

Question 57

Improved _________ relations were made possible by the 2008 Civilian Nuclear Agreement regarding cooperation in developing peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Question 58

The two countries that claim the eight uninhabited Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea are ___________.

Question 59

In July 2014 Japanese Prime Minister ___________ announced his government's reinterpretation of the constitution to allow Japan's armed forces to aid friendly countries under attack.

Question 60

American exporters have bridled at Chinese subsidies for domestic companies and at China's refusal to export _____________ like lithium over which they enjoy a near monopoly but that are essential for technologies like batteries for electric cars.

Question 61

China's rise has created a paradox that is described as ____________ which "aims to capture two different, mutually contradictory historical developments that are taking place simultaneously."

Question 62

In Asia, the United States has security treaties with ____________________.