Table Of ContentASEAN Industries and the
Challenge from China
Edited By
Darryl S.L. Jarvis and Anthony Welch
ASEAN Industries and the Challenge from China
Also by Darryl S.L. Jarvis
INFRASTRUCTURE REGULATION: What Works, Why, and How Do We Know?
Lessons from Asia and Beyond (co-edited with Ed Araral, M. Ramesh &
Wu Xun)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE CHALLENGE OF POSTMODERNISM:
Defending the Discipline
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS RISK: A Handbook for the Asia Pacific Region
(edited)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE “THIRD DEBATE”: Post-Modernism
and its Critics (edited)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: Still an American Social Science? Toward
Diversity in International Thought (co-edited Robert M. Crawford)
Also by Anthony Welch
EDUCATION, CHANGE AND SOCIETY first and second edition
(with R. Connell, C. Campbell, M. Vickers, D. Foley, and N. Bagnall)
AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION: Reform or Crisis?
(published in North America and Europe as Class, Culture and the State in
Australian Education: Reform or Crisis?)
THE PROFESSORIATE: Profile of a Profession (edited)
GLOBALIZATION AND EDUCATIONAL RESTRUCTURING IN THE ASIA
PACIFIC REGION (co-edited K-H. Mok)
QUALITY AND EQUALITY IN THIRD WORLD EDUCATION (edited)
TRADITION, MODERNITY AND POSTMODERNITY IN COMPARATIVE
EDUCATION (co-edited with V. Masemann)
KNOWLEDGE, CULTURE AND POWER: International Perspectives on Literacy
Policies and Practices (co-edited with P. Freebody)
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES IN COMPARATIVE EDUCATION (co-edited
with R. Burns)
HIGHER EDUCATION IN SOUTHEAST ASIA: Blurring Borders, Changing
Balance
ASEAN Industries and the
Challenge from China
Edited By
Darryl S.L. Jarvis
Anthony Welch
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ASEAN industries and the challenge from China / [edited by] Darryl
S.L. Jarvis, Anthony Welch.
p. cm.
Includes index.
Summary: “This book explores the impact of the rise of China on
South East Asia, addressing the consequences for some of Asias key
economic sectors, including educational services, bio-technology,
financial services, and the food industry” – Provided by publisher.
1. Southeast Asia–Economic conditions 2. China–Economic
conditions–2000–. 3. Southeast Asia–Foreign economic relations–China.
4. China–Foreign economic relations–Southeast Asia. I. Jarvis, D.S.L.
(Darryl S.L.), 1963– II. Welch, Anthony R.
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Contents
List of Map, Tables and Figures viii
Preface xi
Acknowledgements xiv
Notes on Contributors xv
Chapter 1 Introduction: Structural Changes, Economic 1
Challenges and Political Accommodation:
Managing the Rise of China in Southeast Asia
Darryl S.L. Jarvis and Anthony Welch
Chapter 2 Rising China, US Influence, and Southeast Asia: 18
Background, Status, and Outlook
Robert Sutter
Chapter 3 The Dragon, The Tiger Cubs and Higher 39
Education: Competitive and Cooperative
China-ASEAN Relations in the GATS Era
Anthony Welch
Chapter 4 International Financial Centres in Asia: 123
Contest, Competition and Possible Trajectories
Darryl S.L. Jarvis
Chapter 5 Being Sandwiched: The Reshaping of 180
ASEAN-China Food Trade
Niels Fold, Jeff Neilson and Bill Pritchard
Chapter 6 Energy Security and Competition in Asia: 210
Challenges and Prospects for China and
Southeast Asia
Benjamin K. Sovacool and Vu Minh Khuong
Chapter 7 The Impact of China on the Electrical and 230
Electronics Industry in Southeast Asia
Frank Ben Tipton
Chapter 8 Agricultural Biotechnology in China: Prospects 265
for New Economy Industries in Southeast Asia
Fredoun Ahmadi-Esfahani
Index 294
vii
List of Map, Tables and Figures
Map
1.1 Southeast Asia 5
Tables
3.1a and 3.1b ASEAN-China trade growth, 1991–2006 41
3.2 Export earnings from international students (higher
education), selected major providers, 1989–2008, and 46
percentage of total national service sector trade
3.3 Modes of provision of cross-border educational services 47
3.4 International students in OECD countries, by number 48
and percent, 1999 and 2006
3.5 English-speaking countries’ share of international 50
students, by origin, 1995 and 1999 (%)
3.6 Destinations of students from Asia-Oceania, 1995 51
and 1999, by percent
3.7 Size and role of overseas Chinese in ASEAN Three 55
economies, 1990s
3.8 ASEAN Three + China – Economic and educational 57
indicators
3.9 Singapore’s sites of foreign direct investment, 62
1997–2007, in SG$ millions
3.10 Number of public HEIs and enrolments, 1990–2006 66
3.11 Changes in staff-student ratios, Chinese universities, 67
1985–2006
3.12 Chinese students studying abroad, by category, 73
1997–2000
3.13 ASEAN students in Chinese universities, 2000–2006 74
3.14 University scholarships offered by China, 2003–2004, 75
and 2004–2005
3.15 Numbers and destinations of Singaporeans studying 82
overseas, 1981–1990 (self-financed)
3.16a Undergraduate enrolments and graduations, local 84
and external, 1997–2000
3.16b Postgraduate enrolments and graduations, local and 84
external, 1998–2000
viii
List of Map, Tables and Figures ix
3.17 Higher education enrolments, degree and diploma, 90
Malaysia, 1970–2008
3.18 Undergraduate enrolments in Malaysian public and 91
private HEIs, 1995–2000
3.19 Private HEIs in Malaysia, as of May 2001 92
3.20 International enrolments, Malaysian public and 95
private HEIs, 2002–2007
3.21 Awards to Chinese students covered by MOUs, 97
to study at Malaysian public universities
3.22 Viet Nam’s higher education targets, 2001, 2010 and 2020 99
3.23 Higher education enrolments by institution and 100
category, 2000/1 and 2006/7
3.24 Enrolments, public semi-public and private HEIs, 100
1996/7–1998/9
3.25 Vietnamese students at Chinese universities, 103
institutional agreements, 1992–1993 to 2003–2004
3.26 Chinese students at Vietnamese universities, 103
institutional agreements, 1992–1993 to 2003–2004
3.27 China-ASEAN cross-border educational services 105
– a summary
4.1 Hong Kong financial centre: Banking sector and 134
financial sector composition
4.2 Evolution of financial services sector in Shanghai: 144
1990 to 2007
4.3 PRC banking system 147
4.4 Singapore financial centre: Banking sector and 153
financial sector composition
5.1 ASEAN food exports to China, major flows, 188
selected years, 1992–2005 (US$ millions)
5.2 Chinese food exports to ASEAN, major flows, 189
selected years, 1992–2005 (US$ millions)
5.3 A framework to account for ASEAN-China food trade 190
6.1 Selected indicators on China’s energy consumption 212
6.2 Level of per capita consumption of electricity for the 216
world average, China and ASEAN-6 countries (US in
2000 = 100)
7.1 Indicators of conditions of doing business in 243
Southeast Asia, compared to the United States, 2004
7.2 Corporate structure in Southeast Asia 245
7.3 Indicators of conditions of doing business in Hong 246
Kong and China, compared to United States, 2004
