1) The document discusses China's strategy to expand its influence in Southeast Asia through economic and infrastructure development. This includes building road, rail, and pipeline networks to connect China to ASEAN countries. 2) A key part of China's strategy is developing the Yunnan province as a "bridgehead" connecting China to Southeast Asia. Rail, road, and pipelines are being constructed from Yunnan to Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam. 3) Thailand also pursues strategies to connect itself to ASEAN and countries further west like India through infrastructure development. This includes developing ports and transportation hubs.

1. Present by
General Ekkachai Srivilas
Director of the Office of Peace and
Governance of King Prajadhipok’s Institute
CHINA - ASEAN Integration
in social and culture context
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2. • The People's Republic Of China : China
• the Central Military Commission of the
People's Republic of China (Vice President)
• Studies Geopolitics
• Individual Research National Defence
College : The People's Republic Of China and
Thailand Security
• Study Megatrend Asia : The Eight Asian
Megatrends that are changing the world.
Presentation

3. Pivot Area

4. Heart Land and Rim Land Strategy
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5. CHAINA and SOUTH EAST ASIA

6. www.kpi.ac.th
Using state of art in each time period
Military Conduct
Political Conduct
Economic Conduct
Social Psychology Conduct
Culture and Religion
Media Power
Facebook, Line,Twitter, Vdeo link, Mobile Phone,
TV and Radio online
Using of national resources

7.  The ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will not be
achieved, if not learn the fundamental of social and
cultural of the community (Multicultural Society and
Culture).
 Adapting to the different contexts of ASEAN Socio-
Cultural Community.
 Promoting the peace process in the management of
cultural diversity.
 Learning more about ASEAN Culture
Interesting issues
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Identity of ASEAN is Diverse identities

8.  Geopolitics
 Different Political and Administrative
System of ASEAN Countries (5 systems)
 Religious diversity: Buddhist,
Islam and Christianity
 More than 700 race and
ethnicity groups
 Speaking more than 500
languages
 Different education systems
 Population more than 600 million
people
Interesting issues (Cont.)
 One country, two systems" is a basic
state policy of the Chinese government
 People generally respected ancestors
 Racial and ethnic diversity
 297 languages in china
 Different Education Systems
 Population more than 1,300 million people
ASEAN CHINA
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9. Each country conditions in ASEAN
• The differences in levels of development.
• Reliance on outside the region
• Different capacities
• The diversity of political systems
• Cultural Diversity
• Nationalist feelings
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10. • Look at the ASEAN economic dimension alone
• Do everything to exploit its neighbors
• Not understanding cultural diversity
• The border viewing is a national problem
• Lack perspective of equality and
humanitarian
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11. • China has the largest population in the world 1300 million.
• Most Chinese citizens traveling to Thailand each year 2.5
million people.
• Aimed to develop logistics system in ASEAN and
connecting to Europe
• China is the leading country among the BRIC nations (
Brazil Russia India China ) nearly half of the world's most
populous. China is becoming the largest economy in the
world.
Oportunity of Thailand

12. Country Population
China 1,347,350,000
India 1,210,193,422
Brazil 200,826,000
Russia 143,100,000

13. The Big Four BRICs country

14. The Eight Asian
Megatrends that
are changing
the world.

16. From Megatrend 2000 and Megatrend Asia
of John Nibitt
• Prediction of global prosperity will flow back to Japan, China,
Korea and ASEAN.
• World Bank analysts say the year 2025 China will be the world's
No. 1 economic power, followed by the US, India and Germany.
• US cooperation with the European Union tries to block the
economic growth of China.
• Incorporating the new world order is coming under pressure
environment, human rights, democracy and free trade.
• China fighting unyieldingly, the Chinese yuan is not yet in the
global financial system.

17. • Robert Mundell,a professor of economics at Columbia University in New York. He
was awarded Nobel Prize in Economics in 1999 and delivered lecture on the topic
“Global Currency: Dollar, Euro, Renminbi (Yuan)” at the United Nations
Conference Centre, Bangkok on December 7, 2011.
• He said that the next 4-5 years China’s yuan will be currency of the regional and
global. The yuan currency's 3rd largest global currency to replace the Japanese
yen. And future euro-dollar And the yuan as an international currency. The yuan
currency is 3rd largest global currency to replace the Japanese yen and future
euro-dollar and yuan will be as an international currency.
• ASEAN has agreed to cooperate with China and Japan in the currency. The
currency of China or Japan could be major currencies of the region. It may
include a basket of currencies of the region
The Chinese yuan is a currency exchange in
the region and the world.

18. • Asia still has not a single currency because it can not be combined perfectly with
the EU on many issues.
• In the next 4-5 years, China will allow Yuan is a currency that can be exchanged
at both the regional and global levels. And a basket of major currencies, will help
establish the ASEAN.
• In the future, China will raise Shanghai to be World Financial Centre. That can be
associated or compared with London and New York.
The Chinese yuan is a currency exchange in
the region and the world.

19. The trend of world economic powers
• Rich nations must adapt to these two countries. Before
everything is too late
• Goldman Sachs, famous investment banker forecasts that in
2050 GDP of China will grow from a total value 2 to 48.6
trillion dollars.
• GDP of India currently is less than 1 trillion dollars but it will rise
to 27 trillion dollars.
• GDP of US will increase from 13 trillion dollars to only 37 trillion
dollars which is less than China 10 trillion dollars.
• The economies of China and India in 2050 is likely to grow by
up to 22 times, while the G7 nations is expected to expand
only 2.5 times.
• China and India come to invest heavily in Africa
(James Wolfensohn, former President of the World Bank speaking at the University of New South Wales, Sydney)

20. • Burma close links with China and India
• Near Kolkata between Delhi and Bombay, Shanghai, Hong Kong
• India's northeastern including Myanmar , Yunnan , Sichuan , Chongqing,
Bangladesh, West Bengal = population of 500 million people.
• Lao has hydropower station and is landlocked nation, near the sea of Vietnam
and attached with the countries with high economic growth.
• Lao is regional transport corridor.
• Vietnam has a long coastline on the upper ASEAN and has the most populous.
Moreover Vietnam fear China the most.
• Cambodia is the most loved China and it is the smallest country of the upper
ASEAN. Cambodia is most closely with China.
• Thailand attached Indochina with the Malay Peninsula and connect the Indian
and Pacific Ocean
• Thailand control the land route which connects all of Asia to Malaysia and
Singapore. The route is the Buddhist world that connect with the world's Muslims
live in South.
• Thailand is an important state of Tai - Tai - Laos race combined100 million people
spread in China, India, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand. As Turkey is a state
of the nation of the turkic peoples who spread across Central Asia.

21. The geographical proximity between
China, India and ASEAN upper
• The long border between China - India - ASEAN upper
Boundary
The length of the
border (km).
China-India 3,380
China-ASEAN upper 3,889
India-ASEAN upper 1,463

22. China's transport network

23. Strategic of moving to South China
• China wants to develop Yunnan.
• China wants to exit to the Indian Ocean
• China's demand energy and minerals from the upper
ASEAN.
• China wants to influence in ASEAN.
• China is moving into the third path.
West China build road of China-Myanmar Transport Corridor.
Nort-South China build the Greater Mekong Subregion.
South-East of China implement Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic
Cooperation (PBGEC)

24. China aimed at the West Wing of ASEAN
• China use Myanmar into the Indian Ocean to avoid the
Malacca Strait
• Myanmar to transport oil and gas from Africa and Persian Gulf
into Yunnan.
• China link oil and gas with Myanmar.
• China blockade India

25. The construction of the Trans-Asian Railway of China
• In 2011, the construction of the Trans-Asian Railway (with Kunming
as a starting point) was officially begun. This is the first high-speed
railway connecting China and Southeast Asia. Its four routes
include the eastern line (from Kunming to Singapore), the mid-
eastern line (from Nanning to Vientiane), the middle line (from
Dali to Bangkok), and the western line (from Kunming to
Yangon).
• This network also links up with railway lines in Burma and India.
The terminal stations on these lines (Ho Chi Minh and Singapore
on the eastern line, Bangkok on the middle line, and Yangon on
the western line) are all international ports.
• The economic impact of the railway will also boost the economy
of the Indo-West Pacific area, and as a result, Kunming’s
economic importance in Southeast Asia will increase.

27. • The North – South wing of ASEAN
• Balconies line North – South which have Kunming - Chiang Rai –
Bangkok line across Laos and Myanmar line, Kunming - Hanoi -
Hai Phong, Nanning – Hanoi line.
• The East wing of ASEAN
• Pan-Beibu Gulf Economic Cooperation (PGB) Zone covers the
Chinese provinces of Guangxi, Guangdong and Hainan, and
Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia and
Brunei.

28. • The main strategy of China in the economic area
1. Connect the Gulf of Tonkin to ASEAN
2. Take Guangxi to help develop western regions such as Guangxi,
Yunnan is China's only
county that is landlocked to the West.
3. While the Mekong sub-region, the Asian Development Bank
(ADB) pioneered China was
the only participant but in the economic zone around the Gulf
Pei Pu, China is a leading full
4. Access to oil and minerals in ASEAN.
5. Reduce tensions in the conflict in the South China Sea.
6. China initiate Pan-Beibu Economic Community which China wants to
become another high-growth economies in the Western Pacific. And China
might initiate East Asia Economic Community (EAEC) in the future.

29. China’s Strategic on Burma
China's Maritime Transport, Energy Route Map

30. The China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline
project

31. Department of International Trade
Promotion
China at a glance
• China now became the 2nd largest top economy (GDP in trillion dollars : China
5.879, US 14.6 and Japan 5.474)
• China became the world’s largest exporter and the 2nd largest importer
• Growing China middle class 50 million in 2010, approximately 130 million in
2020
• Economic development has progressed further in coastal province than in the
interior
• Wealth disparity
• 2.8 % of chinese’s income or 21.5 million under poverty line(90 USD/year)
and 35.5 million less than 125 USD/year

32. Department of International Trade
Promotion
• China is the World Factory
• Major Global Market Place
• GDP 2011 yoy increase 9.2%= 7 trillion USD
China at a glance

33. Department of International Trade
Promotion
• The 12th Economic and Social Development plan
• “Go West” Policy :To Develop China’s western regions
• Economic growth not less than 7%
• Protect the environment and improve energy efficiency
• Domestic consumption instead of exports
• Improve the lives of Chinese citizens
• Develop 7 priority industries : energy saving and environmental
protection; new energy; clean energy vehicles, and biotechnology;
new material; new IT; high end manufacturing
China at a glance

34. Department of International Trade
Promotion
• Foreign exchange reserve 3.2 trillion USD
• Yuan displacing USD as a medium of exchange
• With ASEAN, India, Brazil etc.
• China announced $11 billion currency swap agreement with
Thailand
China at a glance

35. Department of International Trade
Promotion
• Trade surplus continue declined Trend (Billion USD)
2011 2010 2009 2008
155.14 183.1 196.07 295.47
China at a glance

36. Department of International Trade
Promotion
China Vs Thailand
• Trade between China
and Thailand also
increase
• China replaced the US
as Thailand’s top export
destination(11% of all
Thai export)
Total % export % import %
31,278. 26.9 12,127 35.5 19,105 22
Trade bet. China and Thai 2011 (Jan – June)
Source : China’s Customs
Statistics
Unit : Million USD

37. Department of International Trade
Promotion
China VS Asean
• An economic region of 1.9 Billion
consumers and combine trade 4.5
Trillion USD
• Asean-China trade grow much faster
are 20.4%/year
• China Asean FTA effective since
2010
• Trade between China and Asean
increase
• 2011 (6 months) total trade 171.1
Billion increased 25.4% export 80
Billion import 90 Billion

38. Department of International Trade
Promotion
Western China
• Including 12 provinces, municipalities and autonomous
regions
• Area: 6.85 million sq km accounting for 71.4% of China
• Population: 360 million accounting for 26.9% of the
national total
• GDP in 2010 : 7.4343 trillion RMB, or 18.68% of the national
total.

39. Department of International Trade
Promotion
Yunnan map

40. Department of International Trade
Promotion
Yunnan vs Asean
• Yunnan is the nearest province of Asean.The Province
share a 4,060 kilometers border with Myanmar, Laos and
Vietnam

41. Department of International Trade
Promotion
Yunnan Vs Asean(2011)
• Total Trade 59 thousand million yuan increased
28.7%
• Export from Yunnan 35.46 thousand million yuan
increased 22.4%
• Import to Yunnan 23.5 thousand million yuan
increased 39.8%
• Yunnan export Chemical, processing products,
machinery

42. Department of International Trade
Promotion
Yunnan
• The Bridgehead Project was launched in 2009 in order to
communicate and co-operate with South-east Asia and
South Asia and Mekong Valley Area
• Go west policy vs 12th five year economic plan (2011-
2015)
a plan project to have 5 targets increase
GDP 10%,Fixed asset investment 15%,
Local fiscal revenues 13%, Retail
sales revenues of consumer products 16%, total trade
17%

43. Department of International Trade
Promotion
• Pan Asia: Rail and Road
• High way 65,800 km
• China – India (Stiwell Road)
• Guangtong – Dali Railway to Myanmar,India and Bangladesh
• Kunming – Daluo Highway
• Yunnan – Vietnam Railway
• Kunming – Bangkok (1,800 km) Highway
Bridgehead opening towards Southwest
China

44. Department of International Trade
Promotion
Thai fruits in supermarket China

45. Strategy of Thailand
• Implementing a land bridge to link the Indian Ocean with the
Pacific.
• Development of Chiang Rai, Nong Khai, Bueng Kan is the aviation
hub connected to China, Myanmar and Vietnam.
• Connecting Satun with Sumatra. As Satun is a province in the south
of Thailand and is a part of the Strait of Malacca.
• Implementing Phuket island connect with India
• Connecting south of Thailand connected with ASEAN
• Focus on cultural diplomacy to build a relationship Thailand - Laos

46. Department of International Trade
Promotion

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