Cooperation between China and ASEAN under the building of ASEAN Economic Community

Building the ASEAN Economic Community: Challenges and Opportunities for Myanmar

In recent years, ASEAN has been accelerating its efforts to establish the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by 2015. As a member of ASEAN, Myanmar has a mandate to implement a number of policy reforms, as agreed to in the AEC Blueprint. Key reforms include trade liberalization and facilitation in accordance with the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement (ATIGA), investment liberalization and facilitation...

The ASEAN economic community and medical qualification

BACKGROUND In the regional movement toward ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), medical professions including physicians can be qualified to practice medicine in another country. Ensuring comparable, excellent medical qualification systems is crucial but the availability and analysis of relevant information has been lacking. OBJECTIVE This study had the following aims: 1) to comparatively analyze ...

The Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Geo-Economic Relationships between China and ASEAN Countries: Competition or Cooperation?

In the last 30 years, China’s economic power has experienced great changes and has brought about a profound impact on the world economy. This led us to ask a question: do changes in China’s economic power shift the geo-economic relationships between China and its neighboring countries? To answer this question, we researched the evolution of geo-economic relationships between China and the Assoc...

Conflicts in the South China Sea and China- ASEAN Economic Interdependence: A Challenge to Cooperation

An Analysis of Trade Potential between China and ASEAN within China-ASEAN FTA

This paper applies Export Similarity Index to examine China’s export potential to ASEAN market by comparing China with six main ASEAN member countries (ASEAN 6) and the other main trade partners of ASEAN. It shows that competition is severe on industrial level in ASEAN market, and the bilateral trade potential is uncertain. While accounting for the factors of size, distance and integration etc....