Asean member state leaders and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (5th from left) before the start of the Asean-China summit on November 14, 2018. Photo: AFP Asean member state leaders and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (5th from left) before the start of the Asean-China summit on November 14, 2018. Photo: AFP
Asean member state leaders and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (5th from left) before the start of the Asean-China summit on November 14, 2018. Photo: AFP
Zha Daojiong
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Zha Daojiong

For China, Asean is far more important than a mere ‘talking shop’

  • Economically, politically and strategically, the Southeast Asian bloc has provided China a valuable seat at the table of regional diplomacy since becoming dialogue partners in 1996 ... but they’ve had their ups and downs

Zha Daojiong
Zha Daojiong

Updated: 11:10am, 3 Jan, 2019

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Asean member state leaders and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (5th from left) before the start of the Asean-China summit on November 14, 2018. Photo: AFP Asean member state leaders and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (5th from left) before the start of the Asean-China summit on November 14, 2018. Photo: AFP
Asean member state leaders and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (5th from left) before the start of the Asean-China summit on November 14, 2018. Photo: AFP
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Zha Daojiong

Zha Daojiong

Zha Daojiong is a professor at the School of International Studies, Peking University. His areas of expertise include the politics of China’s international economic relations, particularly the fields of energy and natural resources, development aid and the economics-political nexus in the Asia-Pacific region.