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HWA CHONG INSTITUTION College 2 Preliminary Examination 2008 General Certificate of Education Advanced Level Higher 1 GEOGRAPHY 8812/01 PAPER 1 Geography INSERT 1 10 September 2008 3 hours READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS FIRST Insert 1 contains all the Figures referred to in the questions. This document consists of 7 printed pages. HWA CHONG INSTITUTION [Turn over HCI PRELIMS 2008 8812/01/S/08

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HCI PRELIMS 2008 8812/01/S/08 6 Fig. 4B for Question 4OR [T]he extent to which New York City, London, and Hong Kong, three cities linked by a shared economic culture, have come to be both examples and explanations of globalization. Connected by long-haul jets and fiber-optic cable, and spaced neatly around the globe, the three cities have (by accident — nobody planned this) created a financial network that has been able to lubricate the global economy, and, critically, ease the entry into the modern world of China, the giant child of our century. Understand this network of cities — Nylonkong, we call it — and you understand our time…. Globalization may have brought many benefits to those who live in London, New York and Hong Kong, but it has at the same time made the familiar strange, and turned the known world upside down. As they see London property prices bid to the skies by an influx of foreigners, native Cockneys may one day wonder what the new world has to offer them. Hong Kong, for its part, has gotten rich on the back of China. But it is a city of just 6.9 million people. China's largest metropolis, Shanghai, holds 18 million, and the mainland has scores of other rising cities, all ambitious for their moment on the world stage. Hong Kong must continually raise its game to maintain its relevance to the burgeoning Chinese economy. Yet these are places that know how to meet a challenge. They've done it before. From being dismissed as long past their prime a quarter of a century ago, New York, London and Hong Kong have gone on to extraordinary heights. Tying t hemselves together, they have also knitted the world into a seamless fabric, financing and transporting the container vessels and the streams of data that have made today's gl obal economy a phenomenon that ha