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C. Southeast Asia is a region south of China and Japan, east of India and north of Austraila. It includes the nations of Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Singapore, the Andaman and Nicobar islands of India, Indonesia, the Philippines, East Timor, Brunei, Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands.
A. As China grows wealthier, its people grow more worried about their environment. After it banned impure plastic waste imports last year, recycling bales piled up in wealthy nations like the United States, Britain and Australia. That waste soon overwhelmed recycling plants in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and Malaysia.
D. The global waste trade generally involves shipping waste including toxic material from the wealthy, developed, northern nations to much poorer nations in the southern parts of the globe.
B. Spain ruled the Philippines from the 1500s until 1898, when it ceded the islands to the United States after the Spanish-American War. During World War II, Japan invaded the islands in 1941 and ruled until it was defeated in 1945. The United States officially recognized the Philippines as an independent nation on July 4, 1946.