Ge Hongliang
From June 20th to 23rd, the 34th Asian Summit was held in Bangkok, Thailand.As the rotating chairman of Ya'an this year, Thailand sets the theme of this summit to promote partnership to achieve sustainable development. It is hoped that under the concept of cooperation, work together, progress, and sustainable developmentSustainable development with the relationship with major dialogue partnerships.
At this Asian Security Summit, how to cope with Sino -US competition, especially the negative impact of Sino -US trade frictions, is an important topic of leaders of the Asia Simpan countries.From this point of view, Southeast Asian countries are really concerned about the competition between China and the United States, but they are actively acting.
Facing the competition between China and the United States, Southeast Asian countries are really worried and truly feel a negative impact.In the 18th Shangri -La dialogue, which was not long before, Singapore Prime Minister Li Xianlong clearly expressed the increasingly fierce concerns of competition and competition between China and the United States in the opening keynote speech, explaining the development model and consultation solutions of Sino -US innovation relations and other countries such as Singapore and other countries such as Singapore and other countries.The hope of a series of disputes also expresses the very different views of Singapore's global multilateralist topic in the global multilateralist project.
Leaders of other Southeast Asian countries, such as Malaysia Prime Minister Mahathir, also expressed similar attitudes on different occasions.In a sense, this reflects the worries of the leaders of Southeast Asian countries in the face of Sino -US competition.
In fact, Southeast Asian countries truly feel the impact and negative impact of Sino -US trade friction.Nowadays, most of the domestic GDP data in Southeast Asian countries in the first quarter of 2019 have been released.
Among them, the growth rate of GDP in Singapore in the first quarter of this year slowed down, an increase of 1.3 % year -on -year, and the growth rate of the fourth quarter of 2018 was 1.9 %.In the last quarter of Vietnam, the domestic GDP in the first quarter of 2019 actually increased by 6.8 % year -on -year, a decrease of about 0.6 percentage points compared with the 7.4 % growth rate of the same period last year, which may also mean that Vietnam's economic growth rate of 2019 may be the year's 2019 economic growth may might.Besium below 7 %.
Thailand released the domestic GDP data in the first quarter of this year on May 21, achieving a year -on -year increase of 2.8 %. This is the minimum growth rate of Thailand since the fourth quarter of 2014;Judging from the growth rate of 5.3 % in the first quarter of last year and the growth rate of 4.7 % in the previous quarter, a significant slowdown has occurred.
From this point of view, due to the influence of Sino -US trade friction, the fluctuations in the global and regional supply chain and the uncertainty of the market have further intensified, and this has had a incomparable impact on the actual level of Southeast Asian countries.
However, at the same time, in the face of the competition between China and the United States, Southeast Asian countries are not helpless, but have shown a positive side in action.On the one hand, while the continuous promotion of the construction of the Asian dimension community, Axian is emphasizing the sustainable development of the community and the quality of the community development.The summit mainly focused on political economy and stability, social and cultural development, emphasizing cooperation and cohesion among member states, and jointly grasping a new round of scientific and technological revolution to strengthen the construction of Asian Ryo 4.0.
On the other hand, in the context of unreparable changes in the century, Asianan is also through a series of measures to promote the sustainable development of its relationship with the main dialogue partnerships, thereby achieving the centrality of Asia's detachment and slowing the uncertainty of the times.The impact.For example, in the field of economy and trade, Axian hopes to accelerate the reaching regional comprehensive economic partnership agreement (RCEP) with six countries including China, India, and Japan this year.The negative impact of U.S. trade friction will achieve the goal of maintaining the global multilateral free trade system.
In terms of regional development concepts and strategies, in the face of the Indo -Pacific strategy proposed by the United States and the Belt and Road International Cooperation initiative proposed by China, while actively participating in the Belt and Road International Cooperation, the Asian Simpan State also explains its own understanding of Indo -Pacific concepts, and to come to come to the Indo -Pacific concept, to come to come, to come to the Indo -Pacific concept, to come,Shay the Indo -Pacific Concertoire under the vision of Asia.
Although Southeast Asian countries have always been familiar with the game of great powers, today, Southeast Asian countries are facing a strong change in a century, and the strategic competition between China and the United States in this context.Arrived.
In view of this, how to deal with the various uncertainty of the competition in China and the United States and alleviating the unchanged bureau of the century, it undoubtedly constitutes a major topic that Southeast Asian countries realize their sustainable development and maintain centrality.
The author is a senior researcher at the China Chahar Society
Working at the Central Asia Details Research Center of Guangxi University for Nationalities
