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Annual Report on the Development of the Indian Ocean Region (2018) pp 239–260Cite as

The Challenge to ASEAN Centrality Under Indo-Pacific Strategy

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With the rapid economic development of the western Pacific and Indian Ocean region, especially China and India’s rapid rise, the western Pacific and Indian Ocean are getting important in the position in world politics and world economy. Indo-Pacific strategy mainly proposed and promoted by the United States, Japan, India and Australia, India, is gradually taking shape. The proposal and implementation of the strategic concept of “Indo-pacific”, it is the dividend that some countries pay to share the rapid economic development of the Indo-pacific region,but the main purpose of the strategy is to curb the rapid rise of China. ASEAN, which had played a central role in the Asia-pacific region, could be an important pillar of the Indo-Pacific strategy, but there is a contradiction between the aim of Indo-Pacific strategy to deter China and the purpose and the principles of the ASEAN, the Indo-Pacific group does not see ASEAN as an important pillar. But given the role of ASEAN in Indo-Pacific strategy, Indo-Pacific strategy group has embraced parts of Southeast Asia, considering the ASEAN region as an important part of the strategic vision of India. The Indo-Pacific strategy seeks to contain China beyond the “ASEAN Centrality” regional cooperation and dialogue mechanism: on the one hand, it is bound to aggravate regional tensions and weaken the “ASEAN Centrality” in the regional mechanism-construction, on the other hand, it will lead to differences within ASEAN and increase intra-ASEAN conflict.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Lin (2018).

  2. 2.

    Manoj Joshi, “Trump Got It Wrong Again. His Asia Tour Was No Success”, http://www.orfonline.org/research/trump-got-it-wrong-again-his-asia-tour-was-no-success/.

  3. 3.

    Chacko (2012).

  4. 4.

    Liu (2014).

  5. 5.

    [Australia] Brewster (2016).

  6. 6.

    Zhang (2013).

  7. 7.

    Wei (2013).

  8. 8.

    Zhang (2008).

  9. 9.

    Prashanth Parameswaran, “ASEAN’s Role in Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy”, February 13th, 2018, https://thediplomat.com/2018/02/aseans-role-in-japans-indo-pacific-strategy/.

  10. 10.

    Sources of data: The statistics published by ASEAN based on relevant data, https://www.aseanstats.org/.

  11. 11.

    Sources of data: The statistics published by ASEAN based on relevant data, https://www.aseanstats.org/.

  12. 12.

    Zhang (2017a).

  13. 13.

    See Footnote 12.

  14. 14.

    Chitriya (2015).

  15. 15.

    Caballero-Anthony (2014), Stubbs (2014).

  16. 16.

    Wang (2013a).

  17. 17.

    Hsu (2015).

  18. 18.

    Zhang (2010).

  19. 19.

    Zhang (2017b).

  20. 20.

    Wang (2013b).

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    See Footnote 20, Qi (2011).

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    [Australia] See Footnote 5.

  23. 23.

    Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan (2015).

  24. 24.

    Lu (2016).

  25. 25.

    After the US announced its withdrawal out of the TPP, original 11 member countries of TPP signed a new free trade pact in November 2017, which was newly named “Comprehensive Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership” (CPTP).

  26. 26.

    Wu (2014).

  27. 27.

    Wu (2017).

  28. 28.

    Sun (2017), Prakash (2016).

  29. 29.

    Shi (2016), Hillary (2010).

  30. 30.

    Huisken (2002).

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    See Footnote 29.

  32. 32.

    Ankit (2017).

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    Wang (2014).

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    Wei (2015).

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    See Footnote 34.

  36. 36.

    Storey (2017).

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    See Footnote 27.

  38. 38.

    Evan (2018).

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    Bishop (2018).

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Wu, L. (2019). The Challenge to ASEAN Centrality Under Indo-Pacific Strategy. In: Zhu, C. (eds) Annual Report on the Development of the Indian Ocean Region (2018). Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7693-1_9

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