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- - - - ex. British Statesman Earl Macartney arrived to China for trade and the emperor rejected him because he believe that China was superior
        
        ethnocentrism
        
        increased tension with Western division of China in the 19th century, seen with rejection of Mao Zedong towards Western ideology (human rights, democracy, education)
        
        Eventually foreign contact is encouraged with Deng Xiaoping Theory and four modernizations
      - Originally, China’s poor handling of the coronavirus was seen as a sign of the weakening of the CCP; however, they are now using their recent success as a means of support for the superiority of the Chinese government system against democracy. This whole virus has essentially become a power struggle for global leadership, but neither China nor the USA has truly risen to the occasion
        
        This article described how the Chinese governments attempts to control the narrative of the virus and produce faulty information resulted in the globalization of this virus. The article discusses China's history of controlling the narrative as a way to prove its strength to its foreign competitors
        
        Chinese President Xi Jinping inspects prevention and control work against coronavirus in Beijing :
  - - - The movement rallies around the Dalai Lama- spiritual leader who fled to India after Tibetan failed an uprising against China
        
        Image of the Dalai Lama
    - - Image of Protests
  - - - Video that explains how Guanxi is helping repair relations between China and South Korea.The video also sheds light on why China is skeptical about working with Western nations with whom it has no historic relationship with
  - - - Hu Jinao stood next to host Gordon Brown at G20 summit, and was involved in G2 meeting with Barack Obama
- - - - In terms of foreign policy and intervention, Nigeria has often sought military support from its neighbors in response to this group.elp has come from all over the world including a plethora of western countries and many members of the African Union and the UN Security Council.
  - - - The article discusses the issue at hand with the fighting between these two groups that has led to more deaths than Boko Haram and is only expected to increase as climate change reduces the size of grazable and arable land. Currently the conflict has killed more than 10,000 people
        
        Nigerian farmer and his/her crops
  - - - Ex. of leasing oil fields to foreign companies: Niger Delta
        
        Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)- wants more oil money going to the people of the deltas, the violence of the group drives away foreign companies
        
        Hurts economy of Nigeria
      - OPEC
        
        This article essentially describes how a recent initiative of Nigeria in OPEC is to promote stability in the Delta, and improve efficiency of business and oil production in the country. Basically just talking about how Nigeria is on the path to get its hydrocarbon sector back on track
        
        Image of OPEC Secretary General, Mohammed Barkindo; Minister of State for Petroleum, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu at the Nigeria Oil and Gas Conference and Exhibition
        
        Being a member allows Nigeria to make political and economic demands because developed countries need its oil
        
        Are able to do so when West really need oil because the middle east is cut off to some extent
  - - - Unveiled 9 priority areas that are involved in the “Nigeria First” new foreign policy initiative of the government: Key areas in this policy: building a virile economy, enlarging agri output, energy sufficiency, expansion of transport and infrastructure, etc
        
        First priority in foreign policy is Nigeria’s contiguous neighbors: Benin, Cameron, Chad, and Niger: According to Geoffrey Onyeama (minister of foreign affairs) - we are allied in the battle to defeat terrorism (as in allies with the aforementioned countries)
        
        Geoffrey Onyeama
        
        Also said Nigeria is committed to sub-regional integration with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
        
        Also fully engaged with the African Union vision of an integrated Africa
- - - - CIS has little formal power and russia’s motives are almost always under strict scrutiny by other countries, countries are bound together by trade agreements, nationality pulls apart
        
        Logo of the CIS
    - - Putin hoped that would win more favorable trade terms for Russian companies and harness the nation's potential by attracting capital and diverse economics
    - - Also shown that it wants to maintain relationships with other fast growing BRIC economies that are cooperating with aging EU countries
        
        Depends on EU for trade tho even though its trade with China has increased
  - - - Estonian government removed a USSr statue from a public space in capital Tallinn =Russians in Estonia respond aggressively and then computers went down all over Estonia the day after the protests
        
        Nashi- the largest Russian youth group, responded in Russia by sieging the Estonian embassy and attacking an Estonian ambassador
        
        Image of statue that was relocated/removed
    - - Russian troops move into a breakaway region in georgia that wanted independence = proof of growing aggression of Russian military and years of growing tensions between Georgia and Russia
        
        When Georgia got independence and allied with the US, distrust deepened
        
        Russia announced its support for separatists regions of Georgia and invaded South Ossetia and other areas of Georgia
        
        Cease fire agreement and peace brokered by Sarkozy (president of France and EU) and Medvedev signs decree recognizing South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states
    - - Conflicts erupt along ethnic lines - between Ukrainians who favor stronger ties to the West and those with allegiances to Russia
        
        Yushchenko accused Putin of financing and giving political advisors for PM Yanukovych's campaign for president, when Yanukovych won people grew more suspicious
        
        Yanukovych rejected an agreement with the EU that would bolster integration and trade between the EU and Ukraine, and instead accepted $15 billion loan from Russia that would move the country toward a Eurasian Union
        
        Protests = Yanukovych flees to Russia and a coalition govt formed that supported EU agreements = opposition in Crimea (Ukraine area w/ tons of ethnic Russians) = Russian soldiers seize airports and regional govt buildings and a new govt of pro Russian leaders decided to hold a referendum on Crimea's future
        
        Russian parliament authorized deploying troops in Ukraine and Putin signed a treaty formally annexing Crimea
        
        US and EU put sanctions on Russia
      - Recently revealed in this ongoing conflict, is Russia’s discovery of a Ukranian intelligence group in Crimea, including a female Russian military officer who divulged state secrets. This information comes not too long after the detention of one of Ukraine’s top officials because of suspicions of collaboration with Russia in Crimea. OVerall, the situation between these two countries grows worse as Russia continues its support for Crimean independence.
  - - - Welcomed Russia into G-7 to make the G-8 (acknowledging the political importance of Russia in global politics)
    - - Putin says America's invasion of Iraq is an intolerable encroachment on Russian national interests and condemned Bush for telling ppl how to live
        
        Bush ignored relationship with country and focused on war in Iraq instead
  - - - Russia increases prices to attack enemies = other nations affected and their govt put pressure on Putin's govt until the price was restored
    - - Putin and the Saudi Crown Prince