Regional Integration and Political Rivalries Among the East Asian States and Their Impacts on Mekong Sub-Regional Development The Mekong River originates in Tibet and flows through the Chinese province of Yunnan before continuing on a long southward journey ending in the South China Sea. In the course of this southern journey, the extensive Mekong Basin touches the territories of six countries: China, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. However, four of these countries – Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam – are the poorest in the region due to their economic situations, the ASEAN Economic Community for 2015 and the East Asian Regional Integration was not partly accomplished to be a united regional organization. In order to assist the poorest countries (Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam) in the region, the East Asian states launched programs to support the economic development of the sub-region. The East Asian states were divided into three levels of participants: the sub-region (composed of Vietnam and Thailand), ASEAN (the peninsular and island countries), and East Asia (China and Japan). In this context, this study examines the policies and measures that the three levels of players have implemented in order to further economic development in the sub-region. In addition, this study also examines the main factors that motivated the three levels of players to commit themselves to moving economic development forward the sub-region. This book concludes that the political rivalries have had the most positive and negative influences on the development of the Mekong subregion. On one hand, transport infrastructure has been improved throughout the regional and underdeveloped and border areas have been benefited economically. Moreover, ASEAN’s weakness of harmonizing developmental programs to provide opportunities for the Mekong countries got ASEAN programs for the development of the Mekong sub-region approved quicker. Despite these benefits, no formal institution for the Mekong sub-region has been able to show some degree of development and cooperative norms have not been adequately developed. The political rivalries have concerned themselves with the evolution of the ASEAN Economic Community for 2015 and the East Asian Regional Integration. I would like to dedicate my work to my dearest family who played critical role in all my successes. In this respect, I wish to express my gratitude to my three sisters for their total encouragement. My final thanks go to my dearest mother for all her thoughtfulness, encouragement and supportiveness before, during and after writing this book. Unquestionably, without my sisters and my dearest mother, I would not have been able to finish this book. Therefore, this work is dedicated to you for the sacrifices you made. I would like also thanks Dr. Chheang Vannarith, executive director of the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace for the edition and publication support. Without which this book is impossible. Chum Sonya September 2010 mjq-university.codingate/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cicp-e-book-no-3.pdf
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