Economic Overview of East Asia.
According to the geographical concept, East Asia includes Mongolia, China, North Korea, South Korea, and Japan. Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan are also part of East Asia. The population of East Asia is the majority of the yellow race, which used to be spread over most of Asia, throughout the Americas. Now that the Americas have become the Americas of the Caucasian race, the traditional living area of the yellow race in North Asia is occupied by the Caucasian Russians, and the living space of the yellow race has shrunk significantly. Fortunately, the climate of the East Asian monsoon region is highly suitable for the development of grain cultivation and can achieve the highest grain yield in the world, although the proportion of the East Asian plain is not large, due to the suitable climate and the highly industrious agricultural population, the high density of population distribution in the East Asian monsoon region has brought a large number of people in East Asia. East Asia is a region of similar population size to South Asia, two of the most densely populated regions in the world.
South Asia is tropical, while East Asia has a relatively high latitude and belongs to the temperate zone (the ** zone also belongs to the temperate zone and is the warmest temperate zone). Temperate climates and tropical climates have different effects on the evolution of populations, resulting in different evolutionary directions of populations. The temperate climate is more complex than the tropics, which requires a higher intelligence of the temperate population. Agrarian life brings with it an innate or thrifty character or culture, which leads to a high degree of industriousness and frugality among the agrarian populations of East Asia. Thrift in modern society is manifested in a high savings rate.
East Asians are overwhelmingly agrarian, with a very small number being nomadic and mainly found in Mongolia and western China. Objectively speaking, the temperate nomadic population has greatly influenced human history, and most importantly, the history of the temperate agricultural population, is the main source of disaster for the temperate agricultural population. The temperate nomadic population is the main destroyer of temperate farming civilization, which has seriously hindered the progress of temperate farming civilization. The development of civilization in temperate agrarian areas close to temperate nomadic areas is often interrupted, which brings opportunities for the rise of modern civilization in temperate agrarian areas far from temperate nomadic areas. It was under such conditions that the agrarian population of western Europe led mankind into modern times.
The densely populated area of East Asia is in the East Asian monsoon region, which is located in the eastern part of East Asia, close to the sea, and is the essence of East Asia, with dense population and developed economy. The most densely populated areas tend to be the most economically developed areas, while the plain areas are the more densely populated areas and the wealthier areas of each region.
East Asia is also a bright spot in the world's modern economy, and the average affluence in East Asia is not high, but the disparity in affluence can be said to be the largest disparity in wealth in the world. It is the course of modern history in East Asia that has led to this disparity between the rich and the poor. Being a neighbor of the former Soviet Union is the greatest misfortune in East Asia, and it is also the fundamental cause of the disparity between the rich and the poor in East Asia, which has led to the fact that the regions immediately adjacent to the former Soviet Union have been greatly influenced by the Soviet Union and have become the main victims of the ideology of the former Soviet Union, which has led to their own poverty. Fortunately for East Asia, the regions that are far away from the former Soviet Union or not directly adjacent to them have now achieved a relatively affluent status quo because they have not been greatly influenced by the Soviet Union and have suffered less harm, and have become the richest regions second only to Europe and the United States. Japan, South Korea in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao in China are the fortunate regions of East Asia that are less affected by the Soviet Union, and they have become the richest regions in Asia.
In fact, East Asia's economically successful regions are regions where policies do not act, and they are regions that conform to human nature and inherit traditions. Private ownership has been a universal system of mankind for thousands of years, and changing this status quo in the economically successful regions of East Asia is an important guarantee for successful economic development. In fact, the market economy is free buying and selling, which is also a traditional part of East Asia. The failure to abandon the market economy is also an important reason for the economic success of the East Asian region. Social order is the basic connotation of traditional East Asian society, and the traditional moral system coupled with the modern legal system is a stable and orderly modern East Asian society, which is also a guarantee for the economic development of East Asia.
The agrarian population of East Asia is highly industrious, thrifty, and highly intelligent, and it is difficult, almost impossible, not to be rich under the conditions of a normal or traditional social system, or under the conditions of a social system not affected by the Soviet Union. This conclusion is confirmed by the fact that every region of East Asia that was not greatly influenced by the Soviet Union has achieved a high degree of affluence. I don't know what the impact of this conclusion isBut similar conclusions still had a great impact, which led China to move away from the economic path of the former Soviet Union, to the road of reform and opening up, and also brought about the economic take-off of Chinese mainland. Since Chinese mainland's economy has not taken off for a long time, and it has not completely detached itself from the influence of the former Soviet Union's ideology, this has led to the fact that Chinese mainland is not rich for the time being. However, China's path of reform and opening up, which has gradually departed from the path of Soviet thought, has lifted Chinese mainland out of poverty. Although the former Soviet Union no longer exists, North Korea has not yet taken action to break away from the economic ideology of the former Soviet Union due to its excessive isolation. This has made North Korea the poorest region in East Asia, but this does not affect the overall situation of East Asia, it does not affect the fact that East Asia is a thriving region, and this does not affect the rapid path of East Asia to prosperity.
According to the level of economic endowment of the East Asian population, under the conditions of a normal social system, the East Asian region can achieve a highly affluent national life, and can completely reach the living standards of the European and American populations. At present, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao have per capita purchasing power in the forefront of the world, reaching the level of North America or Western Europe.
In the early 90s of the 20th century, Japan's per capita GDP was the highest in the world, which was the highest level of economic development in East Asia in the modern period. Japan's affluence has led to a low national fertility rate, which has led to a high level of aging in Japan, which has led to a long-term stagnation of the Japanese economy. At present, the agricultural areas of East Asia, both rich and poor, are facing the problem of aging, which is an important unfavorable factor hindering the economic development of East Asia.
The thrifty flair of East Asia's agrarian population has led to economic booms that have been or are underway. However, after the economic take-off, the highly frugal national talent led to a lack of consumption, which is the problem that East Asia often faces in terms of insufficient domestic demand. The productive capacity of the East Asian population is higher than its own consumption power, which causes a lack of domestic demand, which leads to the undervaluation of the East Asian currency, which leads to a foreign trade surplus and an outflow of wealth from East Asia.
The way to increase the motivation for consumption is to increase the amount of wealth that people perceive to have and to raise the level of social welfare. Privatization can increase the perceived wealth ownership of the people, which is the inevitable path of a market economy in East Asia. If you want to go to a market economy, you must have a sufficient degree of privatization, which is determined by the economic talent of the East Asian population. The large-scale issuance of government bonds can significantly increase the perceived wealth ownership of the people, which is the main way to balance the high savings rate or low consumption talent of the East Asian farming population. After the agrarian countries of East Asia become rich, low taxes, high national debt, and high welfare should become the basic national policies.