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100	1		_aLIM Guanie
700			_aLI Chen
700			_aJI Xianbai
245			_aChinese financial statecraft in Southeast Asia: _ban analysis of China's infrastructure provision in Malaysia/ _cGuanie Lim, Chen Li & Xianbai Ji
260			_c2022
520			_aSince 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.
650			_aCHINA _xFINANCIAL STATECRAFT _xINDUSTRIAL PARKS _zMALAYSIA _xRAILWAY DEVELOPMENT _zSOUTHEAST ASIA
773			_aThe Pacific Review : _gVol. 35, No 4, July 2022, pp. 647-675 (103)
598			_aCHINA, MALAYSIA, SEASIA, ASIAPAC
856			_uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09512748.2020.1868556 _zClick here for full text
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