Over the past three decades, China has undergone a historic transformation. Once illegal, its private business sector … now comprises 30 million businesses employing more than 200 million people and accounting for half of China's Gross … activities and aspirations of the private entrepreneurs who are driving China's economic growth. The famous images from 1989 of …

China has long claimed the ownership of a network of widely-scattered islands and their surrounding waters and … resources in the South China Sea. These claims overlap in a substantial way with those of at least three ASEAN countries …: Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia. To this day, the South China Sea has remained one of the region’s most dangerous …

China burst onto the world stage in the mid-1980s and in the past decade has been transformed into a giant magnet for … FDI, attracting capital from all over the world. Everyone wants a piece of the China action. Nowhere is this more apparent … than in the region of Southeast Asia, tucked as it is geographically beneath China's southern flank. Much of the FDI inflow …

Aims to examine two problems arising from the presence of oil deposits in the South China Sea: the first relating to … Bibliography and a map of the South China Sea. …

This second volume on ASEAN-China Economic Relations focuses on macro-economic and institutional developments in China … and in selected sectors in ASEAN and China, and their implications for bilateral economic relations. …