・The current relationship between Russia and North Korea is so close that it can be said that it is a de facto military alliance; in addition to Russia, pressure from the Korean Peninsula overlaps, and Japan is facing an unprecedented geopolitical threat; in history, a complex crisis of China from the west, Russia and North Korea from the north, and even the Taiwan Strait is imminent at the same time (p48)
・Before it was handed over to Japan after World War I, Qingdao was under German control, and Germany suppressed key points in the Pacific Ocean, which was also an intersection of maritime hegemony for Western countries, Germany held down a wide range of key points in the Pacific Ocean, from the Shandong Peninsula to the Marshall Islands, New Guinea, and Samoa, and waged a fierce power struggle with the British Empire, Spain, and Portugal (p64)
・Haushofer also paid attention to ocean currents and climate, and positioned the monsoon as an important element in geopolitics. The monsoon not only affects the climate, but is also involved in the formation of lifestyle/agriculture/economic activities, politics, history, religion, climate, and culture (p66)
・During the Mongol Empire, coins made from copper from Japan and Yunnan were minted, and the ratio was roughly half, and this continued until modern times. When Mongolia conquered the Southern Song Dynasty, it did not break through the Great Wall of China, but went south along the eastern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, first conquered Yunnan and then turned east to secure Yunnan's copper and silver resources. In Japan, too, gold from Sado and silver from Iwami were widely known, and until Mexican silver entered the international market, a major part of the world economy was supported by copper and silver from Japan and Yunnan, and it was the Mongol Empire that quickly noticed it and incorporated it into its strategy (p69)
・The west coast of the American continent, which had a small population, was temporarily under the influence of Russia, but in the 1840s, Russia was unable to maintain control due to deterioration in the domestic economy, and relinquished its right to occupy California in 1841, but Alaska was also sold in 1867 and changed to American territory (p72)
・When looking at a map, Haushofer emphasizes the importance of “population density” as to how to look at it from what point of view to deepen geopolitical awareness (p80)
・At the stage immediately after the collapse of the Qing dynasty, Sun Yat-sen assumed that only the area south of the Great Wall of China was the region of the Republic of China, and attempted to place Manchus and Mongolians outside of China, but overpopulation and resource shortages in coastal regions became serious, and Manchuria/Mongolian Uighurs attracted attention as migration destinations for surplus population, and large-scale population migration of Han people began (p81) In the 1960s, Mao Zedong also went to former Manchuria, Inner Mongolia, and Xinjiang in order to resolve overpopulation around Shanghai Xi Jinping's “Belt and Road”, which promoted large-scale immigration policies, is also an extension of this initiative (p81)
・At the end of World War II, the three regions of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Tibet came under Chinese control, and the international community effectively accepted it, and when the Soviet Union and the Allied Forces invaded Manchuria on 1945/8/11, which was the Yalta agreement between the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union, the Mongolian side had a view to integrating Inner Mongolia, but Inner Mongolia was handed over to China based on the Yalta Agreement, and Stalin and the United States-Britain also accepted the demands of the Soviet Union for Xinjiang In the deal, popular resistance continued in Tibet, which was made Chinese territory until the 50s, and America initially supported it, but the US and China approached, and support for Tibet was terminated (p111)
・In Russia, unrest began in the wake of the 1905 revolution, the Romanov dynasty collapsed in '17, overthrown by the Bolsheviks led by Lenin, the Qing dynasty fell in 2012, Mongolia became independent, the Republic of China was established, the Ottoman Empire was dismantled in 1922, and many new nations were born (p133)
・Hens were brought to Mongolia by the Chinese Communist Party, and Mongolians fell into addiction, which was completely different from the history taught at school (p162)
・Since the collision in 2020, the Sino-Indian confrontation has moved to an even deeper geopolitical dimension, and at its core is the largest dam scheduled to be built upstream of the Yaltsampo River and the Brahmaputra River, which is expected to become the largest man-made structure on Earth, and if a huge dam is built on a large river originating from the Tibetan Plateau, it could even affect the Earth's centrifugal force; the flow of large rivers is a kind of fluid weight that maintains the balance of the Earth's rotation It works as, and if it is blocked, there is a risk that disturbances will occur in the Earth's rotational motion itself (p187)
・What was more important to Stalin than anything else was stopping the expansion of Mongolia, and above all, it was necessary to prevent the integration of Mongols and Turkic peoples at any cost, and they have built a common civilization and culture since ancient times, and if Mongolia becomes strong, there is a possibility that Eurasian nomads will come together. Such a Mongolian reconstruction movement is called “pan-Mongolism,” and at the same time, it overlaps with “pan-Turkism,” and at the same time, it overlaps with “pan-Turkism.” If the Turks were combined, Eurasia would be unified over a wide area, and there is a risk that it will replace Soviet socialist ideology, so Stalin thought that the two must be divided and divided and ruled (p196)
