Catching the dragon's tail: China and southeast asia in the 21st century

Contemporary Southeast Asia

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 65-78

  Vatikiotis, Michael R J ^a  

^a Far Eastern Economic Review   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 85050172906     PISSN: 0129797X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1355/CS25-1D     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. 1.The best discussion and detailed analysis of this medieval trade with China can be found in Sarasin Viraphol, Tribute and Profit: Sino-Siamese Trade 1652-1853 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1977).
2. 2.The ten ASEAN countries enjoyed a trade volume of US$41.6 billion with China in 2001, a 53 per cent increase from US$27.2 billion in 1999.
3. 3.Ross Terrill, The New Chinese Empire (New York: Basic Books, 2003), p. 3.
4. 4.Michael Vatikiotis, "SinoChic: Suddenly it's cool to be Chinese", Far Eastern Economic Review [FEER), 11 January 1996, p. 22.
5. 5.Private communication with CPG executives, October 2002.
6. 6.Dr Mahathir Mohamad's speech at the opening of the Malaysia-China Economic Conference in Kuala Lumpur on 8 October 2002.
7. 7.These are some of the results to be found in the Electronic Engineering Times-Asia [EE Times-Asia) salary and opinion survey for 2002, announced by Global Sources Ltd., 9 October 2002.
8. 8."China as Potential Superpower: Regional Responses", by Manu Bhaskaran for Deutsche Bank Research, 15 January 2003.
9. 9.Private communication in Washington D.C, September 2002.
10. 10.Harry J. Benda, The World of Southeast Asia: Selected Historical Readings (New York: Harper and Row, 1967), p. 15.
11. 11.Interview with George Yeo, Singapore's Minister of Trade and Industry, in Pulau Pangkor (Pangkor Island), Perak, in July 2002.
12. 12.Bangkok Post, 22 January 2003.
13. 13.Quoted in South China Morning Post, 23 January 2003.
14. 14.This article is derived from a paper presented at the Nation Group's "Future With China" Conference, Bangkok, 17-18 October 2002.