ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF ASEAN (INDONESIA) + CHINA AFTER AIIB

The South China Sea and U.s.-china-asean Relations

The political and military atmosphere has heated in the South China Sea over the past few years, both bilaterally and multilaterally. However, not every country in the South China Sea has aligned interests. While the Mischief Reef incident of 1994-1995 saw ASEAN united against Chinese assertiveness, each country has grown more focused on isolated issues less relevant to the nations as a group.

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....

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...