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Southeast Asia plainly stays partitioned on China. The democratization of Myanmar was a major blow for China and Aung San Suu Kyi has made it clear that she wants to guide the nation nearer toward the West. Be that as it may, Cambodia and Laos keep on having great relations with Beijing and Thailand has been edging far from the U.S. since the overthrow in 2014 made a crack with Washington. China represents almost fifteen percent of Southeast Asia’s aggregate exchange. Indeed, even Vietnam, which has communicated profound worries about the South China Sea and would like to develop its military with recently accessible U.S. arms, can’t without much of a stretch separation itself from Beijing. The potential dangers China stances to Southeast Asia can be put in two general classes, routine Military dangers and more uncertain and unobtrusive difficulties, perhaps in the appearance of keeping up territorial request. We perceive that these classes are a piece of a continuum: China utilizes both methodologies as required—starting with unpretentious or backhanded dangers, and heightening when that methodology comes up short or where a “lesson” is required. Nevertheless, the qualification between the two sorts of dangers is diagnostically helpful, dangers in the previous classification are effortlessly identifiable and in this manner more manageable to consider arranging, including prevention and reaction. In view of their lower profile and vague nature, dangers in the last classification might will probably emerge however harder to foresee or counter successfully. This book is an asset for scholars, students and general readers alike.

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. China and national security concern. 3. China’s potential Military threat to Southeast Asia. 4. China’s challenge to US power in Asia. 5. China and Japan’s security role in Southeast Asia. 6. Southeast Asian perspectives on U.S. China competition. 7. China’s ecological impact on Southeast Asia. 8. China’s rise in Southeast Asia. 9. Security concerns in the South China sea. Bibliography. Index.