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While China’s largest neighbor India is expected to overtake China by population within only a few years, it is struggling in most other areas to compete with the other giant emerging country.
China has responded to the call for investments in Africa like no other country since the end of the 1990s. Its relationships with African countries has also become ever more political.
Linh Nguyen, Dr. Le Hong Hiep, and Raymond Mallon discuss Vietnam's rising role in Southeast Asia, its foreign investments, and its trade and politics. This webcast was moderated by BDO's Noel Clehane.
In Cambodia and Laos, China is the largest source of development assistance and investment. Both governments maintain close relations with China, where its presence is more marked than anywhere else in Southeast Asia.
The Indo-Pacific being home to significant global trading routes is not only of strategic importance to China. Once again it has become the focus of a global contest for power.