The Pacific Rim in East Asia is the western anchor of a greater Pacific Rim phenomenon that discontinuously encircles the Pacific Ocean from southern New Zealand clockwise to central Chile. From China's western Islamic frontier to Taiwan's burgeoning cities, political and economic developments are transforming traditional cultural landscapes. Intensifying regional disparities mark large regions of the East Asian realm. Population in the East Asian geographic realm remains concentrated in its eastern regions, which reflects the historical-geographical importance of the lower basins of the realm's great rivers. East Asia may witness the rise of the world's next superpower as China's economic and military strength and influence grow - and if China avoids the devolutionary forces that fractured the Soviet Union.
Women come second for health, food, literacy, etc.
Export - testile, leather, guns, clothing. Crops not permanent - rice, wheat, cotton, jute, tea, sugarcane, livestock. Somewhat a market economy but the government regulates it heavily World's largest population - over 1 billion Family planning incentive programs are important to population control.