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China under Xi Jinping’s ‘Pivot to ASEAN’: Challenges and Prospects
Nova Marina Sirait

Last modified: 2017-06-19

Abstract


As the response of Obama’s ‘Pivot to Asia’, People’s Republic of China (PRC) under Xi Jinping, showing its interests on Asia’s region as well. While in the United States was occurring the leadership transition from Obama to Donald Trump as the new president of US for the next 4 years, on January 2017 PRC officially released a document titled China’s Foreign Policy on Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation as a new proposal to give new visions to improve the regional security in the region, and put Association Southeast Asia Nations (ASEAN) as the priorities of its neighbourhood diplomacy policies. Although China and ASEAN relation might heading to a bright way according to the documents, yet there are still historical obstacles and other ‘two sides sword’ issues that have to be respond pragmatically by PRC in order to realise its Chinese Dream in the region.