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Shi Yinhong and Han Caizhen indicate five obstacles to Asia-Pacific cooperation: (1) the number and diversity of states; (2) weak ASEAN leadership and big power disagreements; (3) China and the USA each regard the other as an “outsider” in the region; (4) parties to conflicts in the Korean peninsula, the Taiwan Strait, or the South China Sea distrust regional multilateral forums; and (5) growing nationalism. Though economic interdependence could produce a regional sense of community, these obstacles block progress. Therefore, China should focus on neighborhood diplomacy such as the One Belt-One Road initiative, while maintaining overall stability and existing levels of cooperation.
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Shi, Y., Han, C. (2016). China and East Asian Cooperation: Fundamental Bottlenecks, Recent Problems, and New Orientations. In: Arase, D. (eds) China’s Rise and Changing Order in East Asia. Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-352-00023-8_2
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