Chinese Investments in Southeast Asia: Patterns and Significance

REGIONAL SOCIAL & CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAMME AND REGIONAL ECONOMICS PROGRAMME

About the Hybrid Seminar

Southeast Asia’s growing economic linkages with China have generated political opportunities and strategic concerns in equal measure. This seminar provides a fuller picture of Chinese investments in Southeast Asia for those seeking to understand its significance and impacts. The speaker will draw her analyses and conclusions from her book published by ISEAS in 2023, Chinese Investments in Southeast Asia: Patterns and Significance, co-authored with Nan Liu. She will outline the carefully constructed dataset, and provide an overview of the regionwide, multi-sectoral analysis quantitative survey and analysis of key changes in Chinese investments in Southeast Asian economies over fifteen years, from 2005 to 2019. Additionally, she will provide a qualitative assessment of the geopolitical significance of these trends and patterns. This study creates a baseline understanding of more recent Chinese investments in the region. In the near future, when a feasible data series can be collated for the years from 2020, it will also allow sharper analysis of the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on Chinese investments in the region.

About the Speaker

Professor Evelyn Goh FBA FASSA holds the Shedden Chair of Strategic Policy Studies at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre of the Australian National University, where she is also Director of the ANU Southeast Asia Institute. Goh’s scholarship focuses on East Asian history, security and international relations, and she is a leading authority on Southeast Asian security strategies. Her other books include Rethinking Sino-Japanese Alienation (with Barry Buzan) (Oxford, 2020); and The Struggle for Order: Hierarchy, Hegemony and Transition in post-Cold War East Asia (Oxford, 2013).

Registration

This is a hybrid event which will be held at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS).

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Attending the Event Virtually via Webinar

To join the event virtually at the specified date and time using your internet devices, please register here to receive your unique login link for the webinar via the zoom platform.

If you have questions for the speaker, please key in your questions via the Q&A, stating your name and affiliation. The moderator will field them to the speakers during the Q&A session.