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More ships, high-quality and original The situation around the South China Sea is developing rapidly. However, asserting unambiguously that territorial disputes between China and the ASEAN countries combined with the regional rivalry between Beijing and Washington are bound to lead to military confrontation is too far-fetched. Despite growing U.S. military and political presence, countries in South-East Asia tend to favor enhanced ...
... Shanghai spirit not as an abstract concept but rather as an issue of its foreign policy. www.sectsco.org Regular meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), 2-13 July 2013 In your 2012 article "ASEAN and Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Similar Trends and Tasks," [5] you wrote that the two organizations could supplement each other without causing any harm to their independence. Have you noticed any signs of their practical engagement ...
... one of the major changes, of course, has been the emergence of East Asia, Southeast Asia and particularly China as major poles of the global economy and global geopolitical setup. I would like to remind you that China’s ascent has coincided with ASEAN’s own emergence as an indispensible actor in regional security discussions. From a loose grouping of 5 countries in 1967 with a very limited purview, ASEAN has evolved into a respected and established association which has, in fact, become ...
... economic life of Cambodia. Is this is due to the real economic interests of these countries or the desire to gain political influence within Cambodia? For China, Cambodia is a country with which it maintains a very close cooperation within the framework of ASEAN. Together with Laos and Myanmar, Cambodia forms a block that increasingly gravitates towards China. The main flow of Chinese investment in the region is directed towards these least developed and most dependent countries. The country now is no longer ...
Last Friday, fireworks displays in Sevastopol, Simferopol and Moscow marked Crimea's accession to the Russian Federation. Just before that, the United States introduced first real economic sanctions against Russia by targeting a bank. Half a million Russian MasterCard/Visa cardholders were immediately affected. Responding to this, the Russian government reactivated the suspended project for a national electronic payments system, broadly analogous to Japan's JCB. The French government has postponed...
... giving impetus to further economic activities. At the same time, the dominance of Chinese minorities in very profitable sectors and in the export of capital to the PRC is causing suspicion among indigenous populations. China's rapprochement with the ASEAN is not only strengthening diaspora peoples and boosting their business prospects, but also generating alarmism amongst the locals. Without a doubt, these divergent trends are bound to continue. The Third Global Economy As the world’s largest ...
... New Foreign Policy Concept The theory is that Germany could play the role of a “moneybag”, so to speak, paying for projects aimed at consolidating the anti-China coalition. This is evidenced by the financial support it renders to various ASEAN institutions and programs for developing regional integration. Since 2005, Germany has spent more than $80 million to this end. Putting the “Merkel doctrine” (i.e. support of countries in the region through the supply of arms) into ...
... editor of the Thai newspaper The Nation, commented last year that while Russia’s security initiatives in East Asia have been “dismal,” Putin’s third term in office “will impact on the Asia-Pacific region, in particular, ASEAN, more than ever before.” This is because of Russia’s interest in redistributing power in the region, unlike the United States and China, who seek to extend their own influence. At a time of anxiety in Southeast Asia over China’s ...
.... This problem did not just appear like some fall of an iceberg or an ash cloud. It has been going for years if not for over a decade. There was sparring of words of course. Whose companies, whose problem, who did what when and why. Year in year out ASEAN leaders meet, APEC leaders meet, Foreign Ministers meet and the list could go on – this problem remains but a problem. One has to wonder if it is even on the agenda for discussion. Having worked both in private and public sector over the some ...
Russia, Southeast Asia and ASEAN Asia Pacific was in focus for Russia when it chaired APEC in 2012. However, it did not necessarily turn Russia’s attention to the region, including Southeast Asia. Domestic factors within Russia play an important role in determining Russian ...
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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