Beyond as bridges: The role of the Chinese voluntary associations in Chinese outward foreign direct investment in Southeast Asia

Liang, Yutian; Zhou, Zhengke

doi:10.1111/apv.12386

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“…In the positive case, the global and local does not always denote opposition. Liang and Zhou's (2023) paper shows how a global‐local perspective is useful to explore the role of CVAs in the OFDI of Chinese enterprises in Southeast Asia. For one thing, Chinese MNEs can effectively connect global resources and facilitate information‐sharing through the global contact network of CVAs.…”

Section: Dual Facing As Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition to enhancing host societies' linkage to China, CVAs play a particularly important role for China to implement BRI-related projects and the 'Go Global' strategy in Southeast Asia. Liang and Zhou's (2023) paper reveals that the platform of CVAs and activities organised by them could provide Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs) with chances to obtain global information and resources that are crucial for the decision-making process of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI). Chinese MNEs rely on CVAs to specify investment sites, provide suggestions for reducing search costs and facilitate their local embeddedness in Southeast Asian countries.…”

Section: Transnationalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The transnational process channelled through CVAs is heterogeneous and differs among different types of CVAs. Liang and Zhou (2023) present us a picture of how CVAs play differing roles in Chinese enterprises' OFDI among government‐sponsored CVAs and private ones, as well as among ‘new’ and ‘old’ associations with different membership structures. In comparison to private associations, government‐cooperative CVAs are easier to obtain government support and help, and hence such associations can provide more effective services, accurate information and reliable opportunities in the process of Chinese OFDI.…”

Section: Transnationalisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whereas one current trend in CVAs is to create inter‐racial and inter‐cultural linkages, hybrid cultural forms and partner with agencies beyond the ethnic community, there is another process at play – that is, increasingly local Chinese populations are viewing their Chinese heritage as an asset in the exchange with partners from a rising China, and used their embeddedness into local society as an asset in with to help broker new forms of exchange. Liang and Zhou (2023) argue that CVAs play a critical role in stimulating Chinese MNEs' local embeddedness after investment. This is largely due to the extensive local relation networks that CVAs boast through years of deep cultivation in local areas.…”

Section: Localisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Diasporic Chinese voluntary associations engage China's rise

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Hertzman

2023

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Since the late 1970s, China has gradually risen as a global power, which culminates in the present moment when large‐scale geopolitical and economic ventures such as the Belt and Road Initiative have generated diversified cross‐border connections. This is most forcefully felt in the Chinese diaspora, and particularly those in Southeast Asia since the region is home to the largest and most diverse diasporic Chinese population. Chinese voluntary associations (CVAs), as crucial social institutions in the Chinese diaspora, are actively engaging with China's rise and responding to the (trans) regional political‐economic and socio‐cultural changes. In this introduction of the special section, we open up a collection of five research articles and one commentary that discuss the ambivalences and tensions in CVAs’ engagement with China's rise. We conceptualize CVAs as ever‐evolving ancestral communities which actively (re)position themselves in relation to complex configurations of power dynamics taking place between actors in China and the Chinese diaspora. Ancestral communities evolve through a constant mediation of the two mutually‐constitutive processes of transnationalization and localization, which take on dual‐facing and double‐embedded orientations. This special section also highlights the continuing significance and renewed engagement of CVAs and potential tensions and conflicts generated in changing geopolitical and domestic environment.

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“…Expanding and deepening our understanding of how Chinese voluntary associations navigate the demands placed on them at both ends of the spectrum (e.g. see Liu and Ren, 2023;Zhang, in press;Liang and Zhou, 2023) is particularly important in contemporary times given China's growing political and economic clout globally, as well as the potentially distrustful way in which such associations (especially the newer ones) may be viewed by domestic publics in their countries of settlement.…”

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Dual‐facing bridges and brokers: Diaspora politics and Chinese voluntary associations

2023

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This commentary introduces the term ‘dual facing’ to describe the way that Chinese voluntary associations orientate themselves as collectives situated between the ancestral land (China) and their countries of settlement. The commentary uses examples of Chinese voluntary associations in Singapore and Myanmar to reflect on China's longstanding presence and expanding reach in Southeast Asia, including through its diaspora engagement with the Chinese abroad. It argues that such associations are embedded not only in the nation‐building efforts of their countries of settlement, but also the ancestral land. However, this dual‐facing orientation also means that they can become embroiled in conflictual domestic and foreign politics at both ends, potentially jeopardising how they are otherwise seen as bridges and brokers by China and in the countries where have settled.

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