The Political Economy of the GMS Development Between China and Southeast Asian Countries: Geo-Economy and Strategy Nexus

Soong, Jenn Jaw

doi:10.1080/10971475.2016.1207983

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“…Authors have examined how the BRI intersects the GMS from a political economy perspective (inter al. Soong, 2016;Raymond, 2021). Our research focuses, instead, on how infrastructure projects from several, overlapping sources, are layered on the ground of territories involved in urban transition.…”

Section: Assemblage Thinking and Urbanisation Under Chinese Influencementioning

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How does the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ change urbanisation patterns in Southeast Asia?

Andujar,

Fauveaud,

Gibert‐Flutre

et al. 2023

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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This paper examines how Chinese transnational investments, as (re)framed in the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), contribute to changes in urbanisation processes in Southeast Asia. On the ground, the BRI becomes contextualised and intersects with local and national development trajectories. The growing presence of Chinese actors in the region intensifies urban dynamics, especially in secondary cities and emerging urban sites, where the BRI is used as a lever for local internationalisation strategies. The heterogeneous nature of the links between the BRI and various large urban projects is demonstrated on the basis of case studies involving changing consortia of private and public Chinese and Southeast Asian actors. A regional approach allows us to identify connections and shared processes across Southeast Asian countries. It provides a historically grounded understanding of how the BRI incorporates long‐term interactions with China and more recent partnerships in Southeast Asian countries. The paper paves the way for a research agenda that contests the image of China as a monolithic actor implementing the BRI uniformly and consistently. Further analyses are needed to examine systems and networks of actors as well as the local urban politics that affect the BRI on the ground.

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Section: Assemblage Thinking and Urbanisation Under Chinese Influencementioning

confidence: 99%

How does the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ change urbanisation patterns in Southeast Asia?

Andujar,

Fauveaud,

Gibert‐Flutre

et al. 2023

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“…Regardless of who provides the funding, these countries have access to a greater amount of investment and a variety of products and services (Wan 2016). The competition also gives these countries more choices which, in turn, forces Chinese, Japanese, Indians, and Americans to improve quality and minimize costs when awarding infrastructure projects (Soong 2016). That said, the intensive engagement and intervention of extra-regional powers in China's southern neighbourhood threatens its interests in politics, economy, and security in the eyes of Beijing (Cui 2018).…”

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Beyond the hinterland: exploring the international actorness of China’s Yunnan province

Yao

2019

International Relations of the Asia-Pacific

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The scholarly literature on paradiplomacy has tended to focus overly on subnational governments in federal systems rather than those in unitary and centralized countries. However, it is important to note that some subnational governments in these countries have been increasingly proactive in international relations (IR). This study explores the paradiplomatic activities of Yunnan, a province in the south of China which, since the early 1990s, has actively engaged in cross-border cooperation. Combining the concept of paradiplomacy with the theory of actorness, this study first argues that Yunnan has been incentivized to conduct paradiplomacy through the decision of Beijing to open China’s borders; the inefficiency of the central government in managing border-related issues; and the interprovincial competition over economic and diplomatic clouts in the Mekong subregion. Second, this study argues that Yunnan’s new external affairs powers have been consolidated by a host of new opportunities stemming from the external environment. Third, it argues that Yunnan’s new external affairs powers have enabled it to leverage two broad instruments (infrastructure development and economic statecraft) to make neighboring countries more dependent on cooperation with it. And finally, it is argued that Yunnan’s role as an IR player has been acknowledged both by neighboring countries and by Beijing.

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“…Gráfico 4: IED salida neta de capital China -India Con respecto a esto, la iniciativa china OBOR (One Belt, One Road), ha llevado a China a plantear esquemas de cooperación a partir del nuevo marco de infraestructura, en el que países como Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Tailandia y Camboya, han adelantado proyectos de mejoramiento de obras de infraestructura que permitan la conexión con esa nueva ruta de la seda, que intenta unir el comercio asiático a partir del corredores comerciales enfocados en hacerse parte de las cadenas mundiales de comercio (Soong, 2016). En contraste con datos del mismo ADB, se puede encontrar que la India está centrada en el crecimiento interno.…”

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India y China, dos escenarios de la política internacional contemporánea

Bonilla‐Mejía

2017

Journal De Ciencias Sociales

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The Political Economy of the GMS Development Between China and Southeast Asian Countries: Geo-Economy and Strategy Nexus

Cited by 20 publications

References 11 publications

How does the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ change urbanisation patterns in Southeast Asia?

How does the ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ change urbanisation patterns in Southeast Asia?

Beyond the hinterland: exploring the international actorness of China’s Yunnan province

India y China, dos escenarios de la política internacional contemporánea

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