Study on the Relationship Between China's Economic Development Trend and Southeast Asian Countries' Hedging Strategy

Yaxuan Ji

2025

Abstract

China's economic rise has brought Southeast Asia the dual challenges of economic dependence and security autonomy, prompting it to adopt a hedging strategy. China has formed a complex interdependent relationship with Southeast Asia through trade, investment, and infrastructure cooperation, which has helped regional development and strengthened its strategic autonomy needs. Realism, constructivism, and complex interdependence theories reveal the logic of Southeast Asia's balancing the influence of major powers, being influenced by historical cognition and ethnic politics, and the spillover of economic cooperation into the political field. Southeast Asia's hedging strategy presents a dual logic of "economic dependence-security balance": deepening economic and trade cooperation with China while balancing risks through multilateral mechanisms or external forces. The research concludes that China should deepen cooperation through differentiated strategies, focus on infrastructure and industrial chain coordination in the short term, strengthen multilateral mechanisms, and enhance cultural identity in the long term.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ji Y. (2025). Study on the Relationship Between China's Economic Development Trend and Southeast Asian Countries' Hedging Strategy. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS; ISBN 978-989-758-785-6, SciTePress, pages 66-74. DOI: 10.5220/0014293900004859

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icplss25,
author={Yaxuan Ji},
title={Study on the Relationship Between China's Economic Development Trend and Southeast Asian Countries' Hedging Strategy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS},
year={2025},
pages={66-74},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0014293900004859},
isbn={978-989-758-785-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Politics, Law, and Social Science - Volume 1: ICPLSS
TI - Study on the Relationship Between China's Economic Development Trend and Southeast Asian Countries' Hedging Strategy
SN - 978-989-758-785-6
AU - Ji Y.
PY - 2025
SP - 66
EP - 74
DO - 10.5220/0014293900004859
PB - SciTePress