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Strategic Competition and Multilateral Relations in Indo-Pacific Region

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Annual Report on the Development of International Relations in the Indian Ocean Region (2014)

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Abstract

Currently, the concept of Indo-Pacific has emerged and has been paid much attention to, deriving from the strategic considerations for contend of power and influence in Indo-Pacific region between the world and regional powers including the United States, Australia and India. Under such realistic settings, it is extraordinarily indispensable and pressing to discuss how to release the demand and growth potential by virtue of regional economic integration, to achieve mutual benefit and reduce conflicts in mutual cooperation. “Asia-pacific rebalancing” in the changing world pattern has intensified strategic competition in this area, while asymmetry of interdependence reflected in economic relations between major countries of East Indian Ocean and West Pacific increases the chance of potential conflict. From the angle of establishing regional security, under the premise of geopolitics unable to be enhanced due to structural obstacles, economic integration conflicts can be resolved through win-win cooperation so as to promote the prosperity and stability in the region.

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Notes

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    The so-called economic integration between countries is a process of gradually removing trade barriers and restrictions factors of production flow, integrating step by step the goods, services and markets of means of production into one.

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    Zhuming: “Changes in the World”, “International Economic Review” sixth issue in 2012, pp. 9–15.

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    Hongyuan Shi (2012), quoted from “World Marine Politics and the China’s Developmental Strategy of Oceans” written by Liu Zhongming.

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    Wallerstein (2003), quoted from Xu Xiujun (2012, p. 75).

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Zhu, C. (2015). Strategic Competition and Multilateral Relations in Indo-Pacific Region. In: Wang, R., Zhu, C. (eds) Annual Report on the Development of International Relations in the Indian Ocean Region (2014). Current Chinese Economic Report Series. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45940-9_3

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