China as a Development Actor in Southeast Asia
Abstract
This Evidence Report identifies and explains the central factors driving China바카라 사이트™s policies towards Southeast Asia. It examines China바카라 사이트™s foreign relations through the perspective of foreign policy. In this context, as the title indicates, the report gathers together and evaluates the evidence on China바카라 사이트™s role as a development actor in this neighbouring region.
The study aims to contribute to evidence-based policy deliberation, formulation and implementation. It finds that, since the accession of President Xi Jinping, Southeast Asia has gained additional importance for Chinese foreign relations as a key region in China바카라 사이트™s new 바카라 사이트˜neighbourhood policy바카라 사이트™ and the twenty-first century Maritime Silk Road (MSR) initiative. China바카라 사이트™s economic cooperation and its development assistance are said (by the Chinese government) to provide investment and logistical know-how, skills and experience to undertake infrastructure capacity building in Southeast Asia. Yet the strength of Sino-regional relations is tempered by continuing tensions. These include unresolved territorial disputes, China바카라 사이트™s unilateral action in declaring an Air Defense Identification Zone in the South China Sea, and growing concerns over weaknesses in Chinese corporate social responsibility.
This report concludes that: (1) Southeast Asia바카라 사이트™s policy portfolio would be strengthened through enhanced multilateral and national economic diversification strategies; (2) Sino-regional development partnerships can draw upon the new post-2015 global development agenda to strengthen trilateral cooperation; and (3) civil society should be engaged as a full partner in policy determination.
Citation
Renwick, N. China as a Development Actor in Southeast Asia. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Brighton, UK (2016) 32 pp. [IDS Evidence Report 187]
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