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Chapter 3
Expanding Chinese Interests in ASEAN
Implications to ASEAN
Source: www.apjf.org
Implications disputes goes further than the estimated
Evolving Geo-Strategic Matrix in South China Sea:
cost of potential energy resources including
16 The ongoing territorial disputes in the a number of small man-made islands and
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South China Sea carry massive implications rocks. Essentially this is due to the bigger
for overall security in the region. This is a conflict between China’s ambitions
critical test for China that would illustrate of reinventing itself as a great power
the potentiality of Beijing’s abilities to and keeping beneficial alliances and
change the regional status quo. China’s partnerships with ASEAN. Therefore,
increasing modernization of its military is China will not use its power aggressively
intimately entwined its economic interests. at present, however the possibilities of
Hence, the importance of the South China Sea using it remains a possibility.
24 Robert Art, “The United States and the Rise of China: Implications for the Long Haul,” Political Science
Quarterly 125, no. 3 (Fall 2010),
