Chinese financial statecraft in Southeast Asia: (Record no. 41552)

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Personal name LIM Guanie
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Title Chinese financial statecraft in Southeast Asia:
Remainder of title an analysis of China's infrastructure provision in Malaysia/
Statement of responsibility, etc. Guanie Lim, Chen Li & Xianbai Ji
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2022
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Summary, etc. Since 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative has become China's signature foreign economic policy campaign. While there have been debates on the initiative's implementation and implications, an emerging consensus suggests that the export of capital-intensive infrastructure is a key driving factor of China's financial statecraft. For Southeast Asian countries, such Chinese efforts are useful in plugging their domestic infrastructure gaps, not least in the remote parts of their territory. Against this backdrop, this article examines arguably two of the most prominent Chinese infrastructure projects in Malaysia - the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) and the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park (MCKIP). It posits three inter-related arguments. Firstly, unlike conventional analyses which commonly treat the Chinese state as a singular, unitary actor, both the central and provincial governments in China's multi-layer state structure have played important roles and demonstrated different characteristics in Chinese infrastructure overture towards Malaysia. Secondly, one observes contrasting patterns of well-coordinated state-business relations in the ECRL project versus loose, decentralised state-business relations driven largely by Guangxi province and market forces for the MCKIP. Thirdly, the implementation of both the ECRL and the MCKIP has been heavily constrained by the political-institutional environment of Malaysia as the host country, illustrating that Chinese financial statecraft, in the form of infrastructure provision, generates considerably less impact than what popular rhetoric suggests.
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Bulletin Heading CHINA, MALAYSIA, SEASIA, ASIAPAC
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Topical term or geographic name entry element CHINA
General subdivision FINANCIAL STATECRAFT
-- INDUSTRIAL PARKS
Geographic subdivision MALAYSIA
General subdivision RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT
Geographic subdivision SOUTHEAST ASIA
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Personal name LI Chen
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Personal name JI Xianbai
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Main entry heading The Pacific Review :
Related parts Vol. 35, No 4, July 2022, pp. 647-675 (103)
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09512748.2020.1868556">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09512748.2020.1868556</a>
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