POS 468 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Japanese Language, Public Good, East China Sea
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Small & middle powers most active in creating new orgs, establishing rules. Not concerned about small powers attempting to dominate. Orgs don"t deal with essential security issues (military confrontations) There are ways asean can negotiate - but doesn"t. Asean high council could be invoked over territory or skirmishes, but never convened. Smaller countries in 21st century want more power. If there are problems among them, they don"t want higher powers to be involved. Beginning to play significant roles - indonesia, malaysia, thailand, singapore. Indonesia now part of g20 - 20 most profitable countries in the world. Last 10-20 yrs, bulk of investments go to china (esp if labor intensive) China beginning to invest in other countries - africa mistakes: Moving chinese production to other countries where cost is lower (exploitation) Not training indigenous population to move up to level. Obama administration us policy of rebalancing to asia. Not using local managers, bringing own chinese managers to count.
