China and Southeast Asia: Global Changes and Regional Challenges

✍ Scribed by Khai Leong Ho (editor); Samuel C. Y. Ku (editor)

• Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 354
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The relations between ASEAN and China occupy a unique and important position in the foreign relations of the Asia-Pacific region. China and Southeast Asia’s political, strategic and economic importance in the realm of international relations has been transformed by the region’s unprecedented economic growth, unexpected financial crisis, and turbulent political changes. This volume investigates the impacts of global changes and regional challenges confronting the contemporary developments of China–ASEAN relations. Topics include: changes in strategic perceptions, the economic challenges and legal considerations of the China-ASEAN FTA in the context of a multilateral trading system, the role of “East Asia”, non-traditional security issues, prospects of regionalism, China-Taiwan-ASEAN triangular relations, and Malaysia’s and Singapore’s diplomatic engagement with China. It offers authoritative arguments and a rich collection of ideas for policy-makers and interested readers to mull over.

✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
ABBREVIATIONS
CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION. China-ASEAN Relations: Confronting New Realities
Part I. GLOBAL CHANGES & REGIONAL PERCEPTIONS
1. China and Southeast Asia
Part II. CHINA-ASEAN FTA Economic Statecraft and Policy Interests
2. The Logic of China-ASEAN FTA
3. The Legal and Policy Considerations of China-ASEAN FTA The Impact on the Multilateral Trading System
4. The Potential Outcomes of China-ASEAN FTA
Part III. CHINA-ASEAN RELATIONS Domestic, Regional and International Politics
5. The Significance of Beijing’s Bilateral Relations
6. Non-traditional Security and China-ASEAN Relations
7. The Politics and Economics of ‘East Asia’ in ASEAN-China Relations
8. ASEAN+1 or China+1?
9. China-ASEAN Relations
Part IV. CHINA, TAIWAN & SOUTHEAST ASIA Diplomatic Balance & Strategic Engagement
10. Taiwan’s Diplomacy in Southeast Asia
11. The Changing Political Economy of Taiwan’s and China’s Relations with Southeast Asia
12. Balancing, Bandwagoning, or Hedging?
13. Singapore’s Reaction to a Rising China