Taiwan
Under KMT leadership, President Ma and his PRC counterparts signed ________ economic agreements.
23
Kilcullen wrote that by mid-2008, the U.S. defense budget accounted for _____ percent of total global defense spending.
70
One of Kim Jong-il's favorite movies. (two possible answers)
Rambo
Friday the 13th
How many successful coups have occurred in Thailand since 1932?
13
China decided to curtail Chinese tourist from visiting __________ after it allowed deployment of the U.S. THAAD missile system.
South Korea
Which political party won the 2024 presidential election? (No abbreviations)
Democratic Progressive Party
The name of the Afghan ethnic group that are the descendants of Genghis Khan.
Hazara
How long was the mourning period after Kim Il-sung died in 1994?
Three years
All ten ASEAN members' largest export destination is which country?
China
China has established _________________ in foreign countries to teach Chinese and promote Chinese culture.
Confucius Institutes
The KMT leader that ended martial law in 1986.
Jiang Qingguo
Chiang Ching-kuo
Which country spent $75 million USD towards building Afghanistan a new parliament building?
India
What are the three class groupings that all North Korean citizens are designated?
Core, Waivering, and Hostile
Name the three countries that take part in the ASEAN+3 diplomatic meetings.
China, Japan, and South Korea
The prime murder suspect of the Amber Poon Hiu-wing case.
Tony Chan Tong-kai
Except for this one Asian state, all other major Asian states have representative offices in Taipei.
Pakistan
The authors of Unrestricted Warfare were senior colonels in which army?
Chinese People's Liberation Army
What is the name of the yearly joint exercises between the ROK and the U.S. militaries that repeatedly anger the DPRK?
Team Spirit
In March 2020, which U.S. aircraft carrier visited Vietnam?
USS Theodore Roosevelt
In Southeast Asia, China's ________________ has poured in billions of dollars towards infrastructure projects and investment.
Belt & Road Initiative
According to Shelley Rigger, the PRC economy is ______ times bigger than the Taiwanese economy.
22
The cyclical process of infection, contagion, intervention, and rejection that has played out in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
Accidental Guerilla Syndrome
North Korea agreed to remain in the Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1994 (the Geneva Framework Agreement) and would receive two LWRs. What is a LWR?
Light-Water Reactor
How many square kilometers in Singapore?
660
David Shambaugh thinks that China has developed "________________" over smaller regional states to comment on topics China finds sensitive.
veto power