tailieunhanh - Economic cooperation in ASEAN - China strategic partnership

The paper points out that besides promoting the strategic partnership, ASEAN - China economic relations have created certain impediments such as reducing the trust of ASEAN in China. For economic relations to become the factor promoting ASEAN - China strategic partnership, both sides need to find the way to improve the mutual trust. Particularly, China needs to win ASEAN’s trust in its actual motive when promoting the relationship between the two sides. | Economic Cooperation in ASEAN - China Strategic Partnership Nguyen Huy Hoang1 1 Institute for Southeast Asian Studies Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Email Received on 6 March 2019. Revised on 6 May 2019. Accepted on 14 June 2019. Abstract Rapid development of ASEAN - China economic relations since the early 1990s is thought to play an important role in strengthening strategic partnership between the two sides. By analysing the practice and trends of ASEAN - China economic relations as well as the association of such relations with the partnership between the two parties the paper points out that besides promoting the strategic partnership ASEAN - China economic relations have created certain impediments such as reducing the trust of ASEAN in China. For economic relations to become the factor promoting ASEAN - China strategic partnership both sides need to find the way to improve the mutual trust. Particularly China needs to win ASEAN s trust in its actual motive when promoting the relationship between the two sides. Keywords ASEAN China economic relations strategic partnership. Subject classification Economics 1. Introduction In July 2018 ASEAN and China marked the 15th anniversary of establishing their strategic partnership. Bilateral relations between the two sides continue to develop through the ASEAN - China strategic partnership vision 2030 passed in ASEAN -China Summit organised on 14 November 2018. In accordance with the vision to 2030 the framework of ASEAN - China developed in 2013 was elevated from the 2 7 cooperation framework to 3 X cooperation framework 15 . Specifically the pattern of 2 7 touches up two perceptions and seven petitions2 while the modality of 3 X presents the development relationship based on three pillars and one unidentified cooperation programme. These three pillars are political security economic affairs and human exchange. Economic cooperation is a crucial area promoting ASEAN - China vision on the .