A Study from the Perspective of Regionalism on China’s Political and Economic Strategies Cooperate with the ASEAN Countries

• Main Authors: Ming-hua Liang, 梁銘華
• Other Authors: Wen-cheng Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95u73h

博士 === 國立中山大學 === 大陸研究所 === 95 === On account of China’s dynamic economic growth, its relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) states to its south have expanded rapidly in recent years, culminating in the conclusion of the landmark “China-ASEAN Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement” in 2002. Beyond trade and economic activities, China-ASEAN cooperation has been broadened to cover environment, science and technology, non-traditional security areas and related legal issues. Thus, China’s relations with ASEAN have reached a new era where the two sides have established an economic, political and legal framework for their comprehensive cooperation. Of course, economic cooperation is most important in China-ASEAN relations. The most significant of the initiatives, in terms of members, is the China–ASEAN Free Trade Area now under negotiation and will be established in 2010. If agreement is reached, this will be the world’s biggest free trade area, encompassing 2 billion people, a collective GDP of almost US$2 trillion, and intra-regional trade of US$1.2 trillion. On the political aspect, China succeeded by means of the bilateral cooperation in economy and trade reached to sign the agreement of “on Strategic Partnership for Peace and Prosperity” and “Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea”. China also accessed “Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia” in 2003. These movements want to eliminate the “China threaten” concepts which exist in the ASEAN countries. China, however, needs stable international environment to expand its economy. The aim of this dissertation is to examine the China’s roles and strategies in the process of forming a new Asian regionalism. Currently, Ease Asia is witnessing the emergence of a few trade blocs and many ambitious projects implying closer integration in the region. According to the neo-realist perspective, regionalism is developing more full in those areas of the word where there is a local hegemonic power that is able to create and maintain regional institution. China to make use of regional hegemony offers the public goods stabilizing and developing its relations with ASEAN countries. On the basis of friendly neighboring diplomacy and peaceful rise, China and ASEAN will create free trade area, cooperate to achieve various kinds of sub-region developing, and initiate security mechanism (include the non-traditional security). China would like to build a “China-ASEAN regionalism” by means of comprehensive cooperation in the future.