Volume 31, Issue 2, December 2020, Pages 79–92
Ndabereye Nzita Mugambi Paulin1 and ETOYI ESELA Fidèle2
1 Docteur en Relations Internationales, Professeur à l’Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
2 Chef de Travaux, Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
Original language: French
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The situation in Southeast Asia is deeply affected by the geopolitical conflict between Washington and Beijing, which is fuelling many uncertainties. China continues its global expansion by developing the two new "Silk Roads" to Europe and Central Asia (the land route) and to the Middle East and Africa (the sea route that crosses the entire region) in order to break the American encirclement. In the face of these challenges, the United States is seeking to put itself in a position of strength to limit the progress of China’s economic and military power without seeking to totally impede its development. Indeed, China is thus implementing a new economic diplomacy, which emphasizes the will to "strengthen trade and investment" between China and its neighbors, and calls for the production of goods of various ranges at competitive prices, the creation of new cross-border free trade zones, the improvement of its relations with the ASEAN countries, etc. without forgetting the strategy of pearl necklaces in order to counter the encirclement that the United States of America wants to impose on it.
Author Keywords: Economic diplomacy, China, Surrounding, United States, Southeast Asia.
Ndabereye Nzita Mugambi Paulin1 and ETOYI ESELA Fidèle2
1 Docteur en Relations Internationales, Professeur à l’Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
2 Chef de Travaux, Université de Lubumbashi, RD Congo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2020 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The situation in Southeast Asia is deeply affected by the geopolitical conflict between Washington and Beijing, which is fuelling many uncertainties. China continues its global expansion by developing the two new "Silk Roads" to Europe and Central Asia (the land route) and to the Middle East and Africa (the sea route that crosses the entire region) in order to break the American encirclement. In the face of these challenges, the United States is seeking to put itself in a position of strength to limit the progress of China’s economic and military power without seeking to totally impede its development. Indeed, China is thus implementing a new economic diplomacy, which emphasizes the will to "strengthen trade and investment" between China and its neighbors, and calls for the production of goods of various ranges at competitive prices, the creation of new cross-border free trade zones, the improvement of its relations with the ASEAN countries, etc. without forgetting the strategy of pearl necklaces in order to counter the encirclement that the United States of America wants to impose on it.
Author Keywords: Economic diplomacy, China, Surrounding, United States, Southeast Asia.
Abstract: (french)
La situation en Asie du Sud-Est est profondément affectée par le conflit géopolitique qui oppose Washington à Pékin, ce qui alimente bien des incertitudes. La Chine poursuit son expansion mondiale en développant les deux nouvelles « routes de la soie » vers l’Europe et l’Asie centrale (la route terrestre) et vers le Moyen-Orient et l’Afrique (route maritime qui traverse toute la région) afin de briser l’encerclement américain. Face à ces défis, les États-Unis cherchent à se mettre en position de force pour pouvoir limiter le progrès du pouvoir économique et militaire de la Chine sans malgré tout chercher à entraver totalement son développement.En effet, la Chine met de ce fait une nouvelle diplomatie économique, qui met l’accent sur la volonté de « renforcer le commerce et les investissements » entre la Chine et ses voisins, et appellent à la production des biens de gammes variées à des prix concurrentiels, à la création de nouvelles zones de libre-échange transfrontalières, à l’amélioration de ses relations avec les pays de l’ASEAN, etc. sans oublier la stratégie de collier de perles afin de contrer l’encerclement que veut lui imposer les Etats-Unis d’Amérique.
Author Keywords: Diplomatie économique, Chine, Encerclement, Etats-Unis, Asie du Sud-Est.
How to Cite this Article
Ndabereye Nzita Mugambi Paulin and ETOYI ESELA Fidèle, “La Chine et le déploiement d’une diplomatie économique en Asie du Sud-Est: Enjeux et défis géopolitiques,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 79–92, December 2020.
