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Extended Activities

The World in Spatial Terms

  1. How do communications and information transfers allow the global production system to operate?
  2. What benefits are there for a Taiwanese entrepreneur for returning from study/work in the United States to start a business in a place like the Hsinchu Science-Based Industrial Park?
  3. Why would a company like Nike want to contract shoe manufacturing to a separate business instead of producing the shoes itself?

Uses of Geography

  1. Explain the factors that led to the implementation of Special Economic Zones in China.
  2. What benefit does the Taiwanese government see in creating a high-technology industrial park? How does Taiwan's funding of high-technology development differ from other countries?

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