China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Southeast Asia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. China’s MSRI in Southeast Asia: Dynamism Amidst the Delays, Doubts, and Dilemmas

   • Jean-Marc F. Blanchard

   Pages 1-34

3. Are Southeast Asian Countries Willing to Join the Chorus of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative?

   • Shaofeng Chen

   Pages 35-64

4. China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative and Indonesia

   • Siwage Dharma Negara, Leo Suryadinata

   Pages 65-94

5. Malaysia and China’s MSRI: The Road to China Was Taken Before the (Maritime Silk) Road Was Built

   • Jean-Marc F. Blanchard

   Pages 95-131

6. Myanmar’s Role in China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative

   • J. Mohan Malik

   Pages 133-161

7. The Political Economy of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative in Cambodia

   • Pheakdey Heng, Vannarith Chheang

   Pages 163-190

8. China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative, Southeast Asia, and the United States

   • Frank Lavin

   Pages 191-217

9. The Evolution of India’s Look East Policy and China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative

   • Christopher K. Colley, Sumit Ganguly

   Pages 219-246

10. Back Matter

    Pages 247-258

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This book delves into the political-economy of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative (MSRI), part of the larger Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), with a focus on Southeast Asia (SEA). It represents the second in a three-part book series on China’s MSRI. It discusses the state of the MSRI in various SEA countries such as Indonesia and Myanmar, highlights the international and domestic economic and political factors that shape individual SEA country’s embrace of China’s scheme, and examines the effects of China’s MSRI in individual SEA countries such as Cambodia and Malaysia. It also contemplates the role of third parties such as India and the United States on the behaviors of SEA countries and the implementation of the MSRI. It shows the MSRI is neither a boon nor bust and that the MSRI’s progress and effects are contingent on many factors requiring attention by those wanting to understand China’s mega initiative.

• Belt and Road
• Southeast Asia
• Rise of China
• Infrastructure
• Globalization

• Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, Los Gatos, USA

  Jean-Marc F. Blanchard

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Ph.D. is Executive Director of the Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations (USA) and Distinguished Professor, School of Advanced International and Area Studies, East China Normal University. He is the editor of China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative and South Asia (2017).

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