Chine-Malaisie (vue de Malaisie) : menace ou relation consensuelle inscrite dans la continuité ?
As China’s power continues to rise in Asia, her bilateral ties with Malaysia have strengthened across the board — in commercial, manufacturing, financial, monetary, and cultural domains. In October 2013, the two countries made plans to create a comprehensive strategic partnership. Given the stark as...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Association Recherche & Régulation
2014-06-01
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| Series: | Revue de la Régulation |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/regulation/10760 |
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| Summary: | As China’s power continues to rise in Asia, her bilateral ties with Malaysia have strengthened across the board — in commercial, manufacturing, financial, monetary, and cultural domains. In October 2013, the two countries made plans to create a comprehensive strategic partnership. Given the stark asymmetry of their relative political powers, Malaysia recognizes the risks in closer economic ties with China, but views those risks as outweighed by the benefits reaped. This paper systematically describes the reasoning behind the close China-Malaysia relationship and analyzes its political effects, all from the Malaysian point of view. Kuala Lumpur views the strategic South China Sea question as the only thorn in its side, but does not permit the issue to puncture buoyant China-Malaysia relations. The positive state-to-state bilateral relationship has flourished since 1989: China has not interfered politically in multiethnic Malaysia, despite its significant ethnic-Chinese minority. Rather, deepening ties have benefited Muslim Malays and the conservative nationalist party, the United Malays National Organization (in power since independence in 1957) more than the “ethnic business” and Chinese Malaysian population. Although opposition parties have grown stronger over time, our findings — mostly culled from more than twenty interviews with politicians, public officials, activists, scholars, trade unionists, economists and businessmen — show that an extremely broad political consensus deems China-Malaysia relations advantageous and strategic. Whatever their political leanings, Malaysians view the relationship as valuable and worth maintaining for the long run. |
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| ISSN: | 1957-7796 |