East Asian Regionalism and China

Issues and Studies

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 213-222

  Yunling, Zhang ^a  

^a CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

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References (12)

1. Shujiro Urata argued that there has been "a shift from market-led to institutional-led regional economic integration in East Asia." See Shujiro Urata's paper presented at the conference on Asian economic integration (sponsored by the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry, Tokyo, Japan, April 22-23, 2002), 1.
2. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad's proposal of forming an East Asian Economic Caucus (EAEC) is considered by many as a direct response to the NAFTA. See Peter Drysdale and Kenichi Ishigaki, eds., East Asian Trade and Financial Integration, new edition (Canberra: Asia-Pacific Press, 2002), 6.
3. This, of course, does not prevent any country or a group of countries from developing cooperation or signing FTA agreements with other countries within or without the TPT at the same time.
4. Drysdale and Ishigaki, East Asian Trade and Financial Integration, 5.
5. Ibid., 8.
6. "Leaders Joint Statement on East Asian Cooperation" (Manila, November 28, 1999), Renmin ribao (People's Daily), November 29, 1999.
7. "Leaders Joint Statement on East Asian Cooperation" (Manila, November 28, 1999), Renmin ribao (People's Daily), November 29, 1999.
8. Ibid.
9. "Towards an East Asian Community: Region for Peace, Prosperity, and Progress," East Asian Vision Group Report (EAVG), 2001 (Seoul, Korea).
10. Naoko Munakata, "Seize the Moment for East Asian Economic Integration," CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) PacNet Newsletter, February 1, 2002, available at 〈http://www.brook.edu〉.
11. According to a simulation conducted by the ASEAN Secretariat, a China-ASEAN FTA will increase ASEAN's exports to China by 48 percent and China's exports to ASEAN by 55.1 percent. Such an FTA will increase China's GDP by 0.3 percent or by US$2.2 billion in absolute term, ASEAN's GDP by 0.9 percent or by US$5.4 billion. See "Forging Closer ASEAN-China Economic Relations in the Twenty-first Century" (Report by the ASEAN-China Expert Group on Economic Cooperation, 2001).
12. Findlay and Pangestu, for instance, question that the "challenge is to work out how they fit together in the regionalism portfolio." See Christopher Findlay and Mari Pangestu, "Regional Trade Arrangements in East Asia: Where Are They Taking Us?" (Paper presented at the PECC Trade Policy Forum symposium, Bangkok, Thailand, June 12-13, 2001), 20.