Date & Time:

Thursday, 1 September 2022
2:00 pm – 5:30 pm

Video recording:

Please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt2VzoET88s for a video recording of the hybrid seminar. Alternatively, please visit EAI’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/EastAsianInstituteNUS.

On-site venue:

EAI Conference Room
NUS Bukit Timah Campus, Tower Block #06-01,
469A Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259770

Abstract:

Based on research by a bi-national team of researchers brought together by the National University of Singapore and the University of Paris, this seminar aims to capture and analyse China’s model of economic engagement in Southeast Asia. Crossing the theoretical literature in capital accumulation and empirical studies with international relations interpretation, the bi-national team assesses the complexity of the accumulation process overseas, and examines whether China’s investment in Southeast Asia might foster a more integrated regional economy at the expense of ASEAN’s political and economic stability. This Parisian-Singaporean research will contribute to the literature analysing the internationalisation of China.

Political Economy of China’s Outward Foreign Direct Investment in Southeast Asia

~ Programme ~

2 pm : Welcome Address and Session 1

General Introduction by Robert Boyer | Fellow, Institut des Amériques, Paris
Sectoral and Geographical Diversity of Chinese FDI and its Evolution: An Analytical Framework

Clement Séhier | Institut Mines Telecom Nord Europe and CLERSE laboratory, University of Lille
Categorizing Chinese Investment Patterns in Southeast Asia: A 4-sector Analysis

Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux | Centre Asie du Sud-Est (CASE), Université Rennes 2 &
Caroline Poisson | Université de Poitiers
China’s OFDI in Singapore: Measures, Structures and Legal Forms
(with Chiang Min-Hua | Heritage Foundation and Muriel Perisse | Lille Économie Management, Université d’Artois, Arras)

Q & A

3.30 pm : Session 2

Chen Gang | Assistant Director & Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
Seeking Climate Leadership along the Belt and Road: China’s Renewable Energy Investment in Southeast Asia

Eric Frécon | Adjunct Fellow, IRASEC (Research Institute for Contemporary Southeast Asia, Bangkok) and IRSEM (Institute for Strategic Research, Paris)
A Tentative Typology of Follow-ups in Chinese Port Projects across Southeast Asia

Q & A

4.30 pm : Session 3

Kong Tuan Yuen | Research Fellow, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore
The RCEP Implication for China’s FDI in Southeast Asia

Aymeric Mariette | Université de Paris
China’s Overseas Special Economic Zones in Southeast Asia

Q & A

5.30 pm : Concluding Remarks
Bert Hofman | Director, East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore