Week 7: TPP/CPTPP Issue

1. Week 7 Middle East review quiz

15 points -- don't forget your names.
1. The major division in the Islamic world is...  (a) north africa vs the middle east  (B) men vs women  (c) Arabs vs Persions  (d) Shia vs Sunni

2. The people found in southeastern Turkey, northeastern Syria, and northern Iraq and Iran who want to form their own nation are the...  (a) Kurds   (b) Shia muslims  (c) Punjabis  (d) Persians

3. The Ottoman empire was based in   (a) Saudi Arabia  (b) Turkey  (c) Iran  (d) Greece

4. The Sykes-Picot Treaty between France and the UK gave France control and influence in  (a) most of Iraq and Iran  (b) most of Syria and Lebanon  (c) most of Israel  (d) most of Iraq and Syria

5. US policy in the Middle East follows UK policy, which was  (a) to control the most territory  (b) to control the fossil fuel purchasing  (c) to put the oil under many different governments (d) to control the pipeline networks

6. Which two countries are the Sunni and Shia leaders in the Middle East, respectively...  (a) Israel and Syria  (b) Turkey and Saudi Arabia  (c) Saudi Arabia and Iran  (d) Iran and Syria

7. The US attacked Iraq and Libya because their leaders  (a) did not want to sell oil to the US  (b) threatened to change oil from dollars to another kind of money  (c) wanted to unite the Muslim world against the US  (d) became Communists

2. CTP/TPP


Reference: 
OPINION: Taiwan Should Not Join the CPTPP Trade Pact
https://international.thenewslens.com/article/106539

Assignment: look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the following issues, Explore on the internet using your phone.

worker rights
digital rights, internet management and internet service providers
investor-state settlements
environment
international banks
medicines

1. Explain in English with your partner 7 problems Taiwan will have if it joins the TPP/CPTPP.
2. Describe the courts that will decide how TPP cases are resolved and who will be the judges.