Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Forewords to the First and Second ASEAN Reader: ASEAN: Conception and Evolution
- Forewords to the First and Second ASEAN Reader: ASEAN: The Way Ahead
- Forewords to the First and Second ASEAN Reader: New Challenges for ASEAN
- SECTION I ASEAN: THE LONG VIEW
- SECTION II COUNTRY ANALYSES
- SECTION III COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF THE REGION
- Southeast Asian Societies
- The Southeast Asian Economy
- Southeast Asian Politics
- SECTION IV INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
- SECTION V INSTITUTIONS OF ASEAN
- SECTION VI ASSESSING ASEAN'S INTERNAL POLICIES
- ASEAN Political Security Community
- ASEAN Economic Community
- ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community
- SECTION VII ASSESSING ASEAN'S EXTERNAL INITIATIVES
- ASEAN Processes
- ASEAN's Major Power Relations
- 71 ASEAN's Adventures
- 72 Developing an Enduring Strategy for ASEAN
- 73 Non-Traditional Security in China-ASEAN Cooperation: The Institutionalization of Regional Security Cooperation and the Evolution of East Asian Regionalism
- 74 China-ASEAN FTA Changes ASEAN's Perspective on China
- 75 Japan's Trade Policy with Asia
- 76 Managing Integration in East Asia: Behind Border Issues in Japan-ASEAN Trade Agreements
- 77 Fortifying the Japan-ASEAN Strategic Partnership: Abe's Quest for Viable Hedging Policies
- 78 Prospects for Korean-Southeast Asian Relations
- 79 China's Two Silk Roads: Implications for Southeast Asia
- SECTION VIII SOUTHEAST ASIA: PERIPHERAL NO MORE
- Bibliography
- The Contributors
- The Compilers
79 - China's Two Silk Roads: Implications for Southeast Asia
from ASEAN's Major Power Relations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Forewords to the First and Second ASEAN Reader: ASEAN: Conception and Evolution
- Forewords to the First and Second ASEAN Reader: ASEAN: The Way Ahead
- Forewords to the First and Second ASEAN Reader: New Challenges for ASEAN
- SECTION I ASEAN: THE LONG VIEW
- SECTION II COUNTRY ANALYSES
- SECTION III COMPARATIVE ANALYSES OF THE REGION
- Southeast Asian Societies
- The Southeast Asian Economy
- Southeast Asian Politics
- SECTION IV INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
- SECTION V INSTITUTIONS OF ASEAN
- SECTION VI ASSESSING ASEAN'S INTERNAL POLICIES
- ASEAN Political Security Community
- ASEAN Economic Community
- ASEAN Socio-Cultural Community
- SECTION VII ASSESSING ASEAN'S EXTERNAL INITIATIVES
- ASEAN Processes
- ASEAN's Major Power Relations
- 71 ASEAN's Adventures
- 72 Developing an Enduring Strategy for ASEAN
- 73 Non-Traditional Security in China-ASEAN Cooperation: The Institutionalization of Regional Security Cooperation and the Evolution of East Asian Regionalism
- 74 China-ASEAN FTA Changes ASEAN's Perspective on China
- 75 Japan's Trade Policy with Asia
- 76 Managing Integration in East Asia: Behind Border Issues in Japan-ASEAN Trade Agreements
- 77 Fortifying the Japan-ASEAN Strategic Partnership: Abe's Quest for Viable Hedging Policies
- 78 Prospects for Korean-Southeast Asian Relations
- 79 China's Two Silk Roads: Implications for Southeast Asia
- SECTION VIII SOUTHEAST ASIA: PERIPHERAL NO MORE
- Bibliography
- The Contributors
- The Compilers
Summary
INTRODUCTION
In December 2014, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attended a Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting of prime ministers in Kazakhstan. He traveled on and met 16 other government heads at the third China-Central and Eastern European Leaders’ Meeting in Serbia where he advertised a US$10 billion Chinese credit line for infrastructure development, a US$3 billion Chinese equity investment fund, and a deal to build a new railway link from Budapest through Belgrade and Skopje to the Greek port of Piraeus on the Mediterranean Sea. Li Keqiang then departed for Thailand where he signed a US$ 10.6 billion financing deal to build the Thai segment of a railway that will connect Bangkok to China, and he pledged US$3 billion at the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation summit to finance infrastructure connectivity, Chinese machinery exports, and poverty reduction efforts.
The connection between these far-flung destinations is China's two Silk Road initiatives. Xi Jinping announced the Silk Road Economic Belt initiative during his tour of Central Asia in September 2013. This envisions efficient, high volume land connectivity between China and Europe — with links to all major sub-regions along the way. He announced the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative during his visit to Indonesia in October 2013. This envisions Chinese participation in the development of major ports on the Eurasian rim between China and the Mediterranean Sea in order to promote maritime connectivity. China refers to this pair of initiatives as “One Belt, One Road” (yidai-yilu). Together, the two Silk Roads constitute a grand vision of Eurasian integration under China's leadership.
THE TWO SILK ROADS
This vision is inspired by China's rise to great power status and the transition back to structural bipolarity in the international system. China's neighbours are becoming ever more dependent on it for money, finance, and trade, while the rest of the world looks to Beijing to drive global economic growth. Judging from his speeches at Chinese Communist Party central leadership meetings and at international summits, Chinese President Xi Jinping is implementing an ambitious geo-strategic vision of a China-centric order in Asia and the long-term integration of Eurasia to serve China's growth and development needs.
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- The 3rd ASEAN Reader , pp. 404 - 408Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak InstitutePrint publication year: 2015