The Malaysia–China Economic Relationship at 40: Broadening Ties and Meeting the Challenges for Future Success

Smyth, Russell

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“…China es el mayor socio comercial de Malasia, mientras que Malasia es el mayor socio comercial de China en la ASEAN. Por lo tanto, la relación económica ha sido beneficiosa para ambas partes (Lean, 2016). Además, de acuerdo con datos provistos por la CIA, en 2017 el 20,6 % de la población malaya es de etnia china, por lo que se puede relacionar la importancia que Malasia le otorga a China con cuestiones étnico-culturales (Central Intelligence Agency, 2020).…”

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“…Por otro lado, un objetivo del gobierno de Najib consistió en atraer más inversiones chinas, además de fortalecer los lazos comerciales (Lean, 2016). Malasia es el país más receptivo de Asia respecto a la participación en OBOR: desde 2013, Malasia se convirtió gradualmente en un foco de la diplomacia de Beijing, debido a su ubicación estratégica entre los océanos Índico y Pacífico (Kuik, 2017).…”

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Cuestión de amenaza: La influencia de los factores domésticos en el comportamiento de Vietnam y Malasia ante el ascenso del poder militar chino

Rubbi¹,

Schandeler²

2020

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En las últimas décadas China aumentó enormemente su poder, tanto en términos económicos como militares. Sin embargo, la respuesta de los actores de la región no fue homogénea; mientras que algunos recurrieron al balance de poder y el aumento de sus capacidades, otros evitaron este tipo de comportamiento. Entre 2013 y 2018, Vietnam elevó su gasto militar de forma continua, mientras que Malasia llegó incluso a disminuir el suyo, planteando un interrogante importante para el realismo estructural. A través de un estudio comparado entre ambos casos se concluye que el realismo neoclásico, que incorpora las creencias y las percepciones de los respectivos gobiernos y sociedades al análisis, ofrece una mejor explicación de los acontecimientos. En estos casos, las variables domésticas de cada Estado moldearon el accionar de sus gobernantes y jugaron un rol central en la percepción de China como una amenaza y la consecuente estrategia de respuesta ante su ascenso.

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Cuestión de amenaza: La influencia de los factores domésticos en el comportamiento de Vietnam y Malasia ante el ascenso del poder militar chino

Rubbi¹,

Schandeler²

2020

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“…Malaysia as a Muslim country has welcomed more tourist from China, which is a non-Muslim country. In 2000, Malaysia received 501,590 tourists, which doubled to 1.5 in 2012 (Lean & Smyth, 2016). In 2017, Malaysia had issued around 327,000 entry passes to Chinese (Malay Mail, 2018).…”

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Gastronomy, Tourism, and the Soft Power of Malaysia

Hussin

2018

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This review article examines the link between tourism and soft power in view of five (four proposed by Ooi) interlinked ways (approaches). It also looks whether Malaysia (as a case study) by using the soft power approaches has achieved the desired outcomes or not. The article found that Ooi’s approach is adequate to analyze a country’s tourism policy, strategies, tourists’ perceptions, and the outcomes of tourism. However, it has ignored the independent role of gastronomy, the business-enabling environment, recognition of the cultural and natural sites as world heritage, and methodological approach to address negative stereotypes against other nationalities. The article also maintains that Malaysia has efficiently used the soft power approach and maximally received benefits from it without the use of coercive powers. This research offers insight into different power tools applied in a variety of contexts which shape the image of the country.

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Emerging Dynamics in Malaysia-Japan Relations under the Second Mahathir Administration

Lai¹,

Moorthy²

2022

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Japan and Malaysia established relations in 1957, the year Malaysia obtained independence from the British. Malaysia has largely benefited through many Japanese assistance programs, and in return, the country has remained one of Japan’s closest friends in Southeast Asia. During his first premiership, Mahathir introduced the Look East Policy (LEP) as a major foreign policy re-direction, moving away from the Western approach adopted by his predecessors. Nevertheless, bilateral relations plateaued during the reign of the two successive prime ministers Abdullah Badawi and Najib Razak primarily as a result of the changing regional geopolitical landscape. Malaysia moved closer towards an emerging China. However, the May 2018 general election paved the way for Mahathir to resume control of the country for the second time after a lapse of 15 years. Within less than a year, Japan started to bounce back in Malaysia’s political and strategic sensors. Japan is set to play a greater role in the Malaysian economic landscape, especially with its assistance of low-interest samurai bonds to aid the debt-stricken new Malaysian government. For Japan, this rekindling of old friendship could not have been more timely and may translate into greater support to Japan’s initiatives for regional peace and for a free and open Indo-Pacific region. This paper examines the evolving trends in bilateral relations between Japan and Malaysia in the second Mahathir administration. More specifically, it explicates the external and domestic sources which have affected and recalibrated Malaysia’s Japan policy in the context of a shifting regional strategic milieu as well as an evolving post-election domestic political landscape. This paper contends that the emerging dynamics and trajectories in Malaysia’s relations with Japan under the nascent “Mahathirism 2.0” period have been primarily shaped by the country’s ruling elite’s perceptions of her external conditions in the context of East Asia’s changing power dynamics, tempered by their domestic political considerations and leadership traits/idiosyncrasies. It further argues that despite the newly-minted Pakatan Harapan (PH) government’s visible foreign policy adjustments indicating a possible shift of emphasis from China towards Japan, such recalibrations are yet to alter the fundamentals of Malaysia’s Northeast Asia policy generally and its Japan policy specifically, an area in which the effects of structural conditions (proximity, power asymmetry, rivalries and uncertainties) continue to be informed by the Malaysian ruling elite’s domestic political considerations as they strive as much to optimize the country’s external interests as to consolidate their domestic legitimation.

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The Malaysia–China Economic Relationship at 40: Broadening Ties and Meeting the Challenges for Future Success

Cited by 3 publications

References 16 publications

Cuestión de amenaza: La influencia de los factores domésticos en el comportamiento de Vietnam y Malasia ante el ascenso del poder militar chino

Cuestión de amenaza: La influencia de los factores domésticos en el comportamiento de Vietnam y Malasia ante el ascenso del poder militar chino

Gastronomy, Tourism, and the Soft Power of Malaysia

Emerging Dynamics in Malaysia-Japan Relations under the Second Mahathir Administration

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