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Nowhere in the world has the rise of China had such a massive economic impact as it has in Southeast Asia. Yet over the last few years attitudes towards China in many countries in the region have moved from being positive and benign towards becoming suspicious, perplexed and negative.
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The Philippines is not entirely innocent in the Scarborough Shoal incident, but China looks the bully from its disproportionate retaliatory actions and words. See, generally, Munir Majid, ‘Peaceful Rise Is Not Forever’ in The Star, Malaysia 31 August 2013. The article is also available on the LSE IDEAS website.
At the Asian summits in Brunei in October 2013 (the ones President Obama failed to attend), China also made a number of economic proposals of regional strategic significance. See Munir Majid, ‘China’s Oktoberfest of Grand Diplomacy’, LSE IDEAS Southeast Asia International Affairs Website. Yet the next month Beijing proclaimed its Air Defence Identification Zone in Northeast Asia which also extended over the South China Sea.
See LSE IDEAS Special Report on The new geopolitics of Southeast Asia, November 2012.
Arne Westad, Foreword (p. vii) in Munir Majid, 9/11 and the Attack on Muslims, MPH Group Publishing, Petaling Jaya, 2012.
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This article is based on a presentation made at the LSE China Conference held in Beijing on 15 August 2013.
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Majid, M. Southeast Asian view of China’s ‘not so neighbourly’ rise. Int Polit 51, 398–403 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1057/ip.2014.12
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