Southeast Asia's interactions with China have tremendously transformed and prospered in the recent decades, with China becoming ever more present on Southeast Asian soil in recent history, touching all dimensions: economic, political, social, and cultural. The current ASEAN-China dynamics are remarkably different from the past, bearing both excitement and caution for watchers. In this context, the advent of China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has added a new perspective to the nature of China's rise in ASEAN. As the various BRI projects continue to unfold in ASEAN countries, public concerns about the impact of these projects are on the rise.
However, there has not been enough extensive study on this issue. This edited book contributes towards bridging the knowledge gap by facilitating experts from ASEAN, China, and beyond, to discuss, reflect, debate the ground realities of BRI based on the local governments' and local people's experiences and narratives. The chapters in this volume address various dimensions of the BRI, provide unique perspectives, empirical evidence, and updated information on the overall progress of BRI in ASEAN.
Sample Chapter(s)
Preface
Chapter 1 - China's Belt and Road Initiative and Its Implications for ASEAN: An Introduction
Contents:
- Preface
- About the Editors
- About the Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- China's Belt and Road Initiative and Its Implications for ASEAN: An Introduction (Suthiphand Chirathivat, Buddhagarn Rutchatorn and Anupama Devendrakumar)
- China, Globalization, and the Advent of the Multiplex Order: Case Studies of BRI and AIIB (Jiajie He and Amitav Acharya)
- BRI in the New Phase and Its Implications on China–ASEAN Relations (Lei Zhuning)
- Belt and Road Initiatives (BRI) in ASEAN within the Context of the American Indo-Pacific Strategy (Yang Baoyun and Patcharinruja Juntaronanont)
- Measuring China's Influence in Europe: Contextualizing the Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative (Maria Adele Carrai)
- China's Belt and Road Initiative and ASEAN Connectivity in Development: Can Both Bring Synergy and Opportunities Together? (Suthiphand Chirathivat)
- BRI Projects in ASEAN: Implementation, Mechanism, and Suggestions (Zhang Guoping)
- China's BRI and FDI in Mainland ASEAN (Sineenat Sermcheep)
- The Politics of Thailand–China Railway Cooperation: Domestic Determinants of Smaller State BRI Engagement (Cheng-Chwee Kuik)
- Laos–China Railway: Progress and Challenges (Piya Wongpit and Chayodom Sabhasri)
- Hekou, Where Vietnam Begins and China Ends or Where China Expands into Vietnam? (Stan BH Tan-Tangbau)
- Myanmar: A Strategic Partner in China's Belt and Road Initiative (Jean-Pierre A. Verbiest and Tin Htoo Naing)
- Contract Farming and Agribusiness Related to China Investment in Northern Laos (Alay Phonvisay and Thantavanh Manolom)
- The Belt and Road Initiative and Indonesia's Response to the Rise of China (Muhadi Sugiono)
- Treat and Threat: Chinese Financing of Duterte's Build! Build! Build! Programs (Joefe B Santarita)
- Benefit Imbalance and Market Domination in Cross-Border Fruit Value Chain: The Case of Thai Longans (Supawan Visetnoi and Sompong Sirisoponsilp)
- Index
Readership: Researchers, students (undergraduate, graduate, research),academicians, professionals, policy-makers interested in China's Belt and Road Initiative in ASEAN.
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Suthiphand Chirathivat is a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Chulalongkorn University. He is also executive director of ASEAN Studies Center and chairman of Chula Global Network. He was Dean of Faculty of Economics, Chairman of the PhD Program in Economics, Chairman of Economics Research Center and Center for International Economics at Chulalongkorn University. His academic interests involve the issues related to international trade, investment, finance, regional integration and development, and emerging issues in Asia concerning the global economy and society. Recent publications include China's Rise in Mainland ASEAN: Regional Evidence and Local Responses (co-eds) (2021), China's Rise in Mainland ASEAN: New Dynamics and Changing Landscape (co-eds) (2019), Celebrating the Third Decade and Beyond: New Challenges to ASEAN-India Economic Partnership (co-eds) (2017) and Global Economic Uncertainties and Southeast Asian Economies (co-eds) (2016).
Buddhagarn Rutchatorn is an Associate Professor of Economics at Chulalongkorn University. He is also executive deputy director of ASEAN Studies Center and director of the master programme in Korean study, the co-programme of Chulalongkorn University and Seoul National University. He was associate dean of faculty of economics and deputy President at Chulalongkorn University. His academic interests involve the issues related to international finance, business, investment, managerial economics, and economic issues in the Mekong Region.
Anupama Devendrakumar is a Senior Lecturer of Global Political Economy in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, VinUniversity, Hanoi, Vietnam. Before, she has worked as an Adjunct Faculty in the College of Natural Resources, the Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan; Lecturer in the College of Maritime Studies and Management, Chiang Mai University, Thailand; and Researcher at the ASEAN Studies Center of Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. Anupama's research interests are political economy, international trade, investment, regional economic integration, focusing on ASEAN and its dialogues partners. Much of her prior work is on India's bilateral economic relations with ASEAN. Her recent work explores the nature and extent of China's rise in ASEAN. Anupama obtained her PhD in Economics from the Faculty of Economics, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She lives in Hanoi, Vietnam.