Current Events
Who is current President of the United States?
1.Trump
2.Putin
3.Johnson
4.Biden
4.Biden
Which of the following is the concept focused by realists?
1.Cooperation
2.Power
3.Identity
4.Gender
2.Power
Gross domestic production (GDP) is often used to evaluate?
1.Military strength of a country
2.Political power of a country
3.The number of social groups in a society
4.Economic development of a country
4.Economic development of a country
How many countries now recognize Republic of China as a country and have diplomatic relations with Taiwan?
1.11
2.14
3.19
4.30
2.14
What happened to oil industries in 2020 after the COVID-19 pandemic started to spiral in the world?
1.Oil price dropped heavily
2.Oil price soared
3.Oil price doesn't change for a long time
4.Countries couldn’t produce more oil?
1.Oil price dropped heavily
What is the ranking of China's Nominal Gross Domestic Production (GDP) in the world?
1.First
2.Second
3.Third
4.Fourth
2.Second
Liberalists believe that cooperation among states is?
1.Impossible
2.Possible
3.Unknown
4.Meaningless
2.Possible
Generally speaking, soft power is used to measure a country's____________?
1.Cultural influence
2.Military power
3.Economic influence
4.Political strength
1.Cultural influence
What is the plan initiated by the China's top leader, Xi Jinping, to grow China's trade with the world?
1.Indo-pacific strategy
2.Southbound policy
3.One belt and one road
4.New economy
3.One belt and one road
Which of the following is NOT a member of the QUAD?
1.Canada
2.Japan
3.India
4.Australia
1. Canada
Which of the following was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever built in human history:
1.Fat man
2.Tsar bomba
3.Dongfeng
4.Little boy
2.Tsar bomba
Which of the following is an ideological conflict?
1.Communist revolution
2.Rwanda genocide
3.South China Sea disputes
4.the WWII
1.Communist revolution
Thucydides trap, argued by Granhand Allison, refers to:
1.Great powers will eventually cooperate with each other because there is a trap
2.Great powers from the north will never cooperate with great powers from the south
3.A rising power will challenge the current hegemon, leading to a hegemonic war
4.Thucydides is a person who often gets caught in a trap
3.A rising power will challenge the current hegemon, leading to a hegemonic war
hich strategy the United States has adopted since 2017 in order to counterbalance the growing political and economic influence of China in Asia?
1.Indo-pacific strategy
2.Asian Investment Bank
3. US-Japan Alliance
4.Taiwan Relations Act
1.Indo-pacific strategy
What was the main reason that the United States decided to send its troops to Afghanistan in 2001?
1.911 incident
2.Trade war
3.Financial crisis
4.President preference
1.911 incident
Which of following is a statement NOT supported by feminism in international relations studies?
1.Women love peace than men do
2.Women basically are no difference with men
3.Women are more provocative than men
4.Gender inequality is one of the causes of international conflicts
3.Women are more provocative than men
Which of the following best describe the concept of limited war?
1.Military actions carried out to gain some objective short of the surrender and occupation of the enemy
2.Warfare by one state waged to conquer and occupy another
3.A war over control of the entire world order
4.A war with a time limit of three months
1.Military actions carried out to gain some objective short of the surrender and occupation of the enemy
Many confrontations have occurred between Taiwan and China without directly going to a war, which of the following has been widely used to describe such situation?
1.Red alert
2.Grey zone conflict
3.Dark knight operations
4.Blue water strategy
2.Grey zone conflict
Which of the following is NOT an ongoing armed conflict?
1.Syrian civil war
2.Yemeni civil war
3.Mexican Drug War
4.Vietnamese civil war
4.Vietnamese civil war
Where is the main region the Islamic State (ISIS) originated from and grown its strength?
1.Central Asia
2.Middle East
3.Central Africa
4.Central America
2.Middle East
From the history of international politics, which of the following best describes democratic peace?
1.Democracies love peace more than autocracies do
2.Democratic countries never fight each other
3.There is no association between democracy and peace
4.Democratic countries will better manage domestic affairs
2.Democratic countries never fight each other
In international politics, a situation in which states’ actions taken to ensure their own security (such as deploying more military forces) threaten the security of other states is called?
1.Wishful thinking
2.Security dilemma
3.Prospect theory
4.Diversionary foreign policy
2.Security dilemma
The US Congress passed The Taiwan Allies International Protection and Enhancement Initiative (TAIPEI) Act of 2019 in March 2020, which has been signed into law by the President on 26 March. Which of the following is NOT the main purpose of the TAIPEI act?
1.Help Taipei to become an international financial center
2.Boost economic ties between the US and Taiwan
3.Support Taiwan to participate international organizations
4.Strengthen Taiwan diplomatic relations with other countries
1.Help Taipei to become an international financial center