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China’s Engagement with GMS: Co-production, Cooperation, Competition

LEE SEUNG EUN 1

1대외경제정책연구원

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ABSTRACT

The Greater Mekong Subregion(hereafter, GMS) is consisted of five Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The GMS project has started as part of Asian Development Bank in 1992. Its aim was to build a united economic region in order to have sustainable economic growth, reduce poverty, develop human resources, trade and investment via “Connectivity, Competitiveness, Community.” Yunnan has been participating in this since 1992. Guangxi is a latecomer which started from 2005 only. This plays an important role in China’s involvement in regional cooperation with Southeast Asia. This paper explores the ways in which diverse stakeholders use a simultaneously “cooperative” and “competitive” mechanism in the process of the GMS development. By doing so, this article analyzes relevant policies and projects and provides implications. Involving parties in the GMS include China’s central and local governments, these five Southeast Asian countries’ central and local governments, and international organizations. They act as “bridges” between China and Southeast Asia for their own interests. This article analyzes the GMS cooperation as a field of co-production and mutual interests among several stakeholders.

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