Changes

==Asia==

==Asia==

[[History of Japan|Japan]] had a rigorously enforced policy that isolated the country from nearly all foreign contacts in the Tokugawa period (1603 – 1867).  The goal was to prevent Christianity from entering, as well as other dangerous ideas. The problem is that Japan became militarily so backward it could not defend itself.  

[[History of Japan|Japan]] had a rigorously enforced policy, 1640-1854, that isolated the country from nearly all foreign contacts in the Tokugawa period.  The goal was to prevent Christianity from entering, as well as other dangerous ideas. The problem is that Japan became militarily so backward it could not defend itself.  

During the years 1840-99, Chinese intellectuals' growing awareness of [[History of China|China's]] precarious status in a world of increasingly powerful competing nation-states led them to question China's traditional isolationism and to advocate the adoption of Western technology and institutions.  

During the years 1840-99, Chinese intellectuals' growing awareness of [[History of China|China's]] precarious status in a world of increasingly powerful competing nation-states led them to question China's traditional isolationism and to advocate the adoption of Western technology and institutions.  

Today [[Burma]] (or Myanmar) and [[North Korea]] strictly limit contacts.  North Korea, however, has an aggressive foreign policy that threatens its neighbors South Korea and Japan--and also the U.S.--with missiles and perhaps even nuclear weapons.

Today [[Burma]] (or Myanmar) and [[North Korea]] strictly limit contacts.  North Korea, however, has an aggressive foreign policy that threatens its neighbors South Korea and Japan--and also the U.S.--with missiles and perhaps even nuclear weapons.

==Other countries==

==Other countries==

===Morocco===

===Morocco===