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South East Asia in the ‘Chinese century’: Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Abstract

Between fascination and fear, enthusiasm and hostility, the new Chinese migration questions. The work on “China in Africa” has overlooked the importance of China’s emergence for its closest neighbours. This omission is particularly evident in the case of Southeast Asia, which has always been China’s main trading arena with the world. Viewed as China’s natural backbone, Southeast Asia is a complex and heterogeneous laboratory of circulations and identities under construction at the beginning of the ‘Chinese century’. China’s relations with the rest of the world are sometimes thought of in terms of domination, threat, exploitation and support for authoritarian regimes, sometimes in terms of deadweight and development opportunities. This research proposes to go beyond this binary approach by describing the strategies implemented by local actors to mitigate inequality of power, negotiate asymmetry, circumvent hegemony, embrace, resist or manipulate Chinese capital terms. This Carnet, which focuses on the countries of the former French Indochine — Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos — is the first step in a broader editorial project that aims to meet this challenge.

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