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      "title": "China-Southeast Asia Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications for the United States",
      "summary": "Southeast Asia has been considered by some to be a region of relatively low priority in U.S.\nforeign\nand security policy. The war against terror has changed that and brought renewed U.S. attention to\nSoutheast Asia, especially to countries afflicted by Islamic radicalism. To some, this renewed focus,\ndriven by the war against terror, has come at the expense of attention to other key regional issues\nsuch as China's rapidly expanding engagement with the region. Some fear that rising Chinese\ninfluence in Southeast Asia has come at the expense of U.S. ties with the region, while others view\nBeijing's increasing regional influence as largely a natural consequence of China's economic\ndynamism.\n China's developing relationship with Southeast Asia is undergoing a significant shift. This will\nlikely have implications for United States' interests in the region. While the United States has been\nfocused on Iraq and Afghanistan, China has been evolving its external engagement with its\nneighbors, particularly in Southeast Asia. In the 1990s, China was perceived as a threat to its\nSoutheast Asian neighbors in part due to its conflicting territorial claims over the South China Sea\nand past support of communist insurgency. This perception began to change in the wake of the Asian\nfinancial crisis of 1997/98 when China resisted pressure to devalue its currency while the currencies\nof its neighbors were in free fall. Today, China's \"charm offensive\" has downplayed territorial\ndisputes while focusing on trade relations with Southeast Asia which are viewed by some as the\ncatalyst for expanding political and security linkages. In November 2004, China and the Association\nof Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN includes Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia,\nPhilippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam) agreed to gradually remove tariffs and create the\nworld's largest free trade area by 2010. China is also beginning to develop bilateral and multilateral\nsecurity relationships with Southeast Asian states. \n This report explores what is behind this shift in China-ASEAN relations and how it may affect\nAmerican interests in the region. The key policy issue for Congress is to assess how the United\nStates should view China's expanding posture in Southeast Asia and decide what is the best way to\nreact to this phenomenon.",
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      "id": "RL32688 2005-02-08",
      "date": "2005-02-08",
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      "title": "China-Southeast Asia Relations: Trends, Issues, and Implications for the United States",
      "summary": "This report explores what is behind this shift in China - ASEAN relations and how it may affect American interests in the region. The key policy issue for Congress is to assess how the United States should view China\u2019s expanding posture in Southeast Asia and decide what is the best way to react to this phenomenon. This report may be of assistance to Congressional decision makers as they review legislation such as H.Res. 43 or H.Con.Res. 33 (109th Congress).",
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