Impact of China's Rise on the Mekong Region

Yos Santasombat

Jun 2015 · Springer

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This volume presents a contemporary analysis of the impact of China's rise on the Mekong Region at a critical point in Southeast Asian history. As the most populated country and the second largest economy in the world, China has become an increasingly influential player in global and regional affairs in recent decades. Economic ties between China and her southern neighbors are particularly strong. Yet relations between China and the Mekong region are embedded in complex socio-cultural and political issues. China's accelerated growth, increasing economic footprint, rapid military modernization, and global search for energy, natural resources, and food security have created a wide range of new challenges for smaller countries in Southeast Asia. These new challenges both encourage and limit cooperation between China and the emerging ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). The authors pay close attention to these challenges with particular focus on the impact of Chinese investment, trade, foreign aid, and migration.

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Jean Chih-ying Cheng, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan Bien Chiang, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica and Graduate Institute of Anthropology, National Tsingha University, Taiwan Nguyen Van Chinh, Vietnam National University-Hanoi, Vietnam Pinkaew Laungaramsri, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Romyen Kosaikanont, Mae Fah Luang University, Thailand Aranya Siriphon, Chiang Mai University, Thailand Touch Siphat, Department of Training and Research, Phnom Penh, Cambodia Hsing-Chou Sung, Tunghai University, Taiwan Khine Tun, Asia Development Research Institute, Myanmar