Taiwan

Taiwan  by John Funiciello, Kristian Hoffman and Andrew Sweet

Political​ Type of government: Democracy ** Suffrage age: 20 years of age **
 * Current Leader: Ma Ying-Jeoumedia type="custom" key="5702121" width="139" height="102" align="right"
 * Legal system: The Constitution of Taiwan

**Social** Life Expectancy- 77.96 Years Ethnic and Religious Groups-media type="custom" key="5702453"media type="custom" key="5702251" Literacy rates- 10 year** **s of basic education. 60% of people go to secondary and vocational schools. Languages- 13 different languages based off Austronesian beliefs.**
 * Population- 22,920,946 (84% of which are native Taiwanease) ** **​

Curreny and Exchange rate- TWD to USD=$32.84
 * Economic**

Poverty rate-Less than 1 percent of the population(129,968 people)are considered as poor or in low income,99 percent of the poplulation enjoys the benifits of taiwans economic prosperity.

Major Industries- Electronics, Communication products, Oil

Major Imports and Exports- Oil for import.Commidities for export

Natural Resources-Oil, Natural gas, Coal, Limestone, Marble, Asbestos

GDP Per Capita- $30,200 per person

Current Events

media type="custom" key="5847007"

U.S. Missile Sales with Taiwan In Taiwan recently the U.S. has sold them over 6.7 billion dollars in missiles and military defense weapons. China was very upset about the sale because they are in a little standoff with Taiwan. Taiwan has declared them selves as an independent nation but China sees them as a colony. China has suspended their military and security contacts with U.S. and imposing sanctions on the U.S. firms involved in the sale.

I think the trade with Taiwan was kind of shaky. China needs to realize that Taiwan is an independent nation and not their colony. On the other hand we don’t need to go around flaunting our weapons and selling them to any country that has enough money to buy them.

Taiwan Just​ice Minister resigns over death penalty

The Taiwan Justice Minister resigns over death penalty. She said she would rather die in the place of the people in death row if it gave the chance to be rehabilitated. Many people disagreed with her because of the how the victims thought of what she said. Taiwan has practiced a 4 year de facto moratorium on the death penalty. The last two executions were in 2005.

I agree with the justice minister because death penalties are unjustified depending on the crime. I think a death penalty is a harsh punishment by most circumstances. In some cases the death penalty would be fair if the person was a mass murderer but that would be the only fair use for it. I would be completely against otherwise.

A 6.4 magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan on March 3rd 2010.There were no reports of any injury’s or death but many major buildings and bridges had been damaged. They are recently recovering from a typhoon that had killed hundreds of people in august, in the meantime it left more than 2 feet of water. The 6.4 magnitude earthquake was followed by a few minor after shocks.

I Think that they should have built the bridges alot more durable because they know that they were in a earthquake zone. If they don’t there going to keep on having to throw money away to fix these bridges and buildings. They were very lucky do have no deaths and no injuries.